Talk:Damned If You Do

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Television Portal This article is part of WikiProject Television, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to television programs and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
Assessment comments This article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

This is OT - but I don't think figwort actually has any interactions with epinephrine. Can anyone confirm/deny?

[edit] Figwort

As with lots of other natural products, there are a lot of different compounds in figwort. Sadly, I can't manage to find anything useful on ePocrates' Multicheck. But according to wikipedia, Figwort contain iridoids which are mentioned to also have vaso-active effect, thus some interaction with epinephrine could be possible, although probably not as spectacular as in this episode.

Also we may note that tea contains several compound (theine/caffeine, theophylline and theobromine), which have well documented vascular effects and known positive interaction with epinephrine that lead to stronger effects on the hearth (But once again, not as spectacular as in the episode - unless some underlying cardiac condition further amplifies the effect).

DrYak (talk) 02:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)