Drug to erase bad memories

[theblackalchemist]

How many times have you wished you could simply delete a bitter memory from your mind? It seems that science may have found a way to do just that.

 

Researchers at Harvard and McGill University in Montreal are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled, reports LiveScience...

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More here- Times of India

 

TBA

[InfiniteNow]

Military could use this after they torture someone.

[Drip Curl Magic]

This can't be good. Can it?

 

Memories are all I've got to learn from.

 

My memories are my wisdom.

[theblackalchemist]

everyone learns from memories, it just looked like an interesting clipping, so it found its way here. any more views?

TBA

[ughaibu]

Considering traditional psychotherapy's obsession with retrieving repressed memories, the idea is quite amusing.

[Michaelangelica]

Many, many, years ago I read an article, in a dentist's surgery, about a drug/chemical found in "Heartsease" Viola tricolour.; a pretty annual pansy. In fact the progenitor of most pansies.

The article said the herb was able to dull traumatic memories. (As you would expect from the name of the herb).

 

The dentist was cruel & shockingly expensive and I forgot to steal the magazine on my way out.:shrug:

 

Anyone know anything else?

[InfiniteNow]

In fact the progenitor of most pansies.

The article said the herb was able to dull traumatic memories. (As you would expect from the name of the herb).

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Anyone know anything else?

 

Here you are, my friend. I hope you, and yours, are well. :shrug:

 

 

botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Heartsease - Herb Profile and Information

---Constituents---The herb contains an active chemical principle, Violine (a substance similar to Emetin, having an emeto-cathartic action), mucilage, resin, sugar, salicylic acid and a bitter principle. When bruised, the plant, and especially the root, smells like peach kernels or prussic acid. The seeds are considered to have the same therapeutic activity as the leaves and flowers.

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It was formerly in much repute as a remedy for epilepsy, asthma and numerous other complaints, and the flowers were considered cordial and good in diseases of the heart, from which may have arisen its popular name of Heartsease as much as from belief in it as a love potion.

 

Gerard states:

'It is good as the later physicians write for such as are sick of ague, especially children and infants, whose convulsions and fits of the falling sickness it is thought to cure. It is commended against inflammation of the lungs and chest, and against scabs and itchings of the whole body and healeth ulcers.'

A strong decoction of syrup of the herb and flowers was recommended by the older herbalists for skin diseases and a homoeopathic medicinal tincture is still made from it with spirits of wine, using the entire plant, and given in small diluted doses for the cure of cutaneous eruptions.

[Michaelangelica]

Bugger you! now I have to look it up

I doubt if you would find anything except in very academic journals

 

But wouldn't it be great if we could have a drug that did this for soldiers, 9/11 survivors etc

This doesn't say much

Heartsease Viola tricolour

Also known as Wild Pansy

The herb contains an active chemical principle, Violine (a substance similar to Emetin, having an emeto-cathartic action), mucilage, resin, sugar, salicylic acid and a bitter principle

The seeds are considered to have the same therapeutic activity as the leaves and flowers.

Heartsease was formerly in much repute as a remedy for epilepsy, asthma and numerous other complaints, and the flowers were considered cordial and good in diseases of the heart, from which may have arisen its popular name of "Heartsease" as much as from belief in it as a love potion.

Heartsease was formerly official in the United States Pharmacopoeia, and is still employed in America in the form of an ointment and poultice in eczema and other skin troubles, and internally for bronchitis.(MA-Most violas are soothing with lots of mucilage)

The herbaceous parts of the plant have been employed for their mucilaginous, demulcent and expectorant properties.

The root and seeds are also emetic and purgative, which properties as well as the expectorant action of the plant are doubtless due to the presence of the Violine

Accolent Dried Herbs |

 

The hertseaae was of course the herb Shakespeare used in "Midsummer Night's Dream" to confuse everyone

 

Some enterprising chemist with an interest n Trauma/memory should have a good look at it

[Michaelangelica]

Learning to forget

Issue 29 of Cosmos, October 2009

by Emma Young

 

Painful memories that cause distress could soon be a thing of the past. Recent studies suggest memories can be manipulated, edited - and even deleted. Emma Young won 2010 Health Journalist of the Year for this in-depth report

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/3242/learning-forget#comment-57151

 

Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist at University College London, and her colleague Demis Hassabis, revealed that they'd been able to read a person's memory by scanning their brains.