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Cough Medicine; Home Made Ingredient, Uses, Dosage, Effect

Cough medicine is medications used in those with coughing and related conditions. There is, however, no good evidence that over-the-counter cough medications reduce coughing.[1][2] While they are used by 10% of American…

Crowfoot, Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Crowfoot/Ranunculus bulbosus commonly known as St. Anthony's turnip[rx] or bulbous buttercup is a perennial member of the buttercup family. It has attractive yellow flowers, and deeply divided, three-lobed long-petioled basal leaves.…

Custard Apple Fruits; Nutritional Value, Health Benefits

Custard apple fruits is the fruit of Annona squamosa or Annona asiatica, which belongs to the genus Annona and family Annonaceae.[1] Custard apple is cultivated throughout India and is commonly known…

Cymbopogon Citratus – Nutritional Value, Health Benefits

Cymbopogon Citratus/Tanglad is an herb popular for its citrus flavor with a trace of ginger. Tanglad is widely used in cooking served to spice…

DADPS – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

DADPS/Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS), an enzyme important…

Daphne Mezereum; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Daphne mezereum commonly known as February daphne, mezereon,[rx] mezereum, spurge laurel or spurge olive,[rx] is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and Western Asia, north to northern Scandinavia and Russia. In southern Europe, it…

Dapsona – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Dapsona/Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS), an enzyme important…

Dapsone 5% Tropical Gel – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects

Dapsone 5% Tropical Gel /Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase…

Dapsone 5% Tropical Gel – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects

Dapsone 5% Tropical Gel/Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS),…

Dapsone Gel – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Dapsone Gel/Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS), an enzyme…

Dapsone – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS), an enzyme important…

Datura Stramonium – Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Datura stramonium (D. stramonium) is one of the widely well-known folklore medicinal herbs. The troublesome weed, D. stramonium is a plant with both poisonous and medicinal properties…

Decitabine Mesylate – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interaction

Decitabine is a Nucleoside Metabolic Inhibitor. The mechanism of action of decitabine is as a Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitor. Decitabine is a cytosine analog…

Decitabine – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interaction

Decitabine is a Nucleoside Metabolic Inhibitor. The mechanism of action of decitabine is as a Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitor. Decitabine is a cytosine analog…

Devil’s Claw Effectiveness, Safety, and Drug Interactions

Devil's Claw Effectiveness/Harpagophytum also called grapple plant, wood spider and most commonly devil's claw is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their…

Devil’s Claw for Arthritis, Sciatica, Osteoarthritis

Devil's Claw for Arthritis/Harpagophytum also call grapple plant, wood spider and most commonly devil's claw is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus…

Devil’s Claw – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Devil's claw(Harpagophytum procumbens) /Harpagophytum also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil's claw is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe…

Dexlansoprazole, Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Dexlansoprazole is the R-isomer of lansoprazole and a substituted benzimidazole prodrug with selective and irreversible proton pump inhibitor activity. As a weak base, dexlansoprazole accumulates in the acidic environment…

Dexrazoxane Hydrochloride – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interaction

Dexrazoxane Hydrochloride is the hydrochloride salt of a bisdioxopiperazine with iron-chelating, chemoprotective, cardioprotective, and antineoplastic activities. After hydrolysis to an active form that is similar…

Dhatri lauha; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Dhatri lauha vati a rich iron supplement. Dhatri lauh is a combination of two words. Dhatri means mother and lauh mean iron. Dhatri lauh vati is the mother…

Diaphenylsulfone – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Diaphenylsulfone/Dapsone is a synthetic derivative of diamino-sulfone with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. As a structural analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), dapsone inhibits dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS), an enzyme important…

Diazepam; Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions, Pregnancy

Diazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative with anti-anxiety, sedative, hypnotic and anticonvulsant properties. Diazepam potentiates the inhibitory activities of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) by binding to the GABA receptor, located in the limbic system and…

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) – Uses, Dosage, Indications

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid found in cold-water, fatty fish, such as salmon. It is also found in fish oil supplements,…

Dorzolamide – Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Interactions

Dorzolamide is an inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase, a zinc-containing enzyme that catalyzes the rapid conversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbonic acid, protons, and bicarbonate ions. Distributed throughout many…

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