A Pharmacognostic and Chemical Study of Ma Huang (Ephedra Vulgaris Var. Helvetica)
✍ Scribed by Chen, K.K.
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 1925
- Weight
- 435 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-140X
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✦ Synopsis
ion concentration increases just the same as the concentration of the salt itself increases. Whereas, when you have the silver proteid the largest part of the silver ions are forming some chemical complex or colloidai complex with the proteids present, and so they don't irritate the tissues in the body.
In such a state I believe it could be carried to any part of the body, say, t o the face, and might be deposited under the skin.
Dr. Kolthoff: When you take silver nitrate it is reduced in the body to metallic silver, and the metallic silver deposits in the cells just under the skin, but it is not sunlight which plays the r6le but only special characteristics of the cells of the skin that.are doing that, because i t is not only in the skin that you have metallic silver but also in other cells of the body. I am not quite sure where all these cells are because I am not a pharmacologist, only a chemist and pharmacist.
H. B. Corbitt: You state that there is silver colloid there in the colloidal dispersion. Do you know of any cases of argyria? Does the sunlight affect it?
The main part is deposited in the cells just under the skin.
A PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND CHEMICAL STUDY OF MA HUANG (EPHE-DRA WLGARIS VAR. HELVSTICA).