library_books

i love library books.
and paying library overdue fees.
but i rarely read the ones that i check out.
so, a brief skim before they're plopped into the returns slot.

/chinese medicine
1. chinese herbal medicine. 1974. by chen pien li
supported by john p. fogarty international center
oh. a lot of cancer drugs.
some cardiac drug. Mao-tung-ching. vasodilates coronary arteries.
ginseng. Panax ginseng, C.A. Meyer. cute picture. was raising and maintaining blood pressure in someone s/p MI.
ginger. Zingiber officinale Rosc. with 0.25-3% volatile oil, maingly zingiberol, zingiberene, camphorene. also small amounts of zingirol, riesin and starch. zingirol is a yellow oily liquid that tastes spicy, and when mixed with zingerone and shogaol, all with 5% KOH, the spice is lost.
magnolia tree bark. used for respiratory congestion and typhoid fever?

/psych urgent care
1. essentials of crisis counseling and intervention. 2003. donald e. wiger and kathy j. harowski.
written more for counselors?


(-)some misspellings, all typewritten, written stiffly.
(+)some drawings of herbage in the back

ethnopharmacology

/ethnopharmacology and gender differences, dr. tang
rec'd may 2006

pharmacokinetic issues
diet
Sudanese study regarding antipyrene
dosing
most recommendations based on majority population
metabolism
poor: practically no metabolism; nonworking or missing alleles/genes
slow: phenotypically mimics poor metabolizers
extensive = normal
ultra extensive: very efficient metabolism; may have multiple copies of gene

Cytochrome P450
2D6: metabolizes TCA
poor metabolizers: 5-7% Caucasians
2% African Americans
2% Hispanic
1% East Asian
slow metabolizers: up to 33% African Americans and Asians
ultra extensive: e.g. Spain natives have mutation that makes them fatst
2C19
poor metabolizers: Western population: 3%
3% African American
25% Asian American