3: How to Use the Monographs
CHAPTER 3 How to Use the Monographs These monographs are aimed at providing the herbal clinician with accessible and clinically relevant information on more than 100 well-known and widely used…
Nail changes
192 Nail changes Instruction Look at these nails. Salient features • Disorders of the nail bed: • Terry’s nail (Fig. 192.1): brownish-red distal transverse band; occurs normally in the elderly,…
Acanthosis nigricans
167 Acanthosis nigricans Instruction Perform a general examination. Salient features History • Age (>40 years of age more likely to be associated with malignancy; in younger individuals more likely to…
Age-related macular degeneration (senile macular degeneration)
214 Age-related macular degeneration (senile macular degeneration) Instruction Look at this patient’s fundus. Salient features History • Often visual loss is detected when one eye is covered for testing visual…
Superior vena caval obstruction
231 Superior vena caval obstruction Instruction Look at this patient. Salient features History • Headache • Dysphagia • Dyspnoea • Wheezes • Blackouts • Oedema of the face. Examination •…
Diabetic retinopathy
201 Diabetic retinopathy Instruction Examine the fundus in these patients. • You will be expected to comment on whether it is background (Fig. 201.1) or proliferative (Fig. 201.2) retinopathy. •…
