ARSENIC AND AYURVEDA

Authors
TRELEAVEN J MELLER S FARMER P BIRCHALL D GOLDMAN J PILLER G
Citation
J. Treleaven et al., ARSENIC AND AYURVEDA, Leukemia & lymphoma, 10(4-5), 1993, pp. 343
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology
Journal title
Leukemia & lymphoma → ACNP
ISSN journal
10428194
Volume
10
Issue
4-5
Year of publication
1993
Database
ISI
SICI code
1042-8194(1993)10:4-5<343:AAA>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Manufacture of an Ayurvedic arsenic-containing compound is described, which is currently in use in India to control blood counts of patients with haematological malignancies. The efficacy and side effects of th is compound are evaluated in the light of the fact that arsenic was re cognised to be of use in the control of blood counts from patients wit h chronic myeloid leukaemia as long as 100 years ago, in the West.