Amazingly my chronic hip/leg pain/stiffness is relieved with:How do you pronounce Guaifenesin anyway? Goo-A-fen-es-in? Even the experts can't agree, Merriam-Webster has two different pronunciations.
Guaifenesin
Found this out when taking guay for a cold, felt like crap from my cold, but my hip pain was gone.. Ha!
Seems this stuff has been around for a long time and has been used for a number of ailments. This is the only thing in the Wikipedia article that correlates with Andy's story:
The 1955 edition of the Textbook of Pharmacognosy states: "Guaiacum has a local stimulant action which is sometimes useful in sore throat. The resin is used in chronic gout and rheumatism, whilst the wood is an ingredient in the compound concentrated solution of sarsaparilla, which was formerly much used as an alternative in syphilis."[3]Andy's hip pain is from arthritis, previously known as the rheumatiz. And who knew there was a field called Pharmacognosy? Pharmacology I have heard of, but this is the first time I've heard of Pharmacognosy, and no, I don't know how to pronounce it either.
2 comments:
It means the branch of pharmacology concerned with crude drugs of plant and animal origins.
gwa-fen-uh-sin
You should hear me sounding out drug names at work...some of them look like dkalfdnbioaeqxxxow >.<
Post a Comment