REMEDIES FOR PRUSSIC ACID.

Nitrate and Prussic Acid Toxicity in Forage

Cooperative Extension Service • Kansas State University • Manhattan Nitrate toxicity Nitrate is a natural product formed from the oxidation of organic compounds. Most of the soil nitrogen absorbed by plant roots is in nitrate form. Normally, nitrate in a plant is rapidly converted to amino acids by the enzyme nitrate reductase. This reduction requires energy from sunlight, adequate water, nutri...

Management of Nitrate and Prussic Acid in Forage Crops

The two factors of drought conditions and export markets are focusing recent attention on nitrates and prussic acid in forages. During normal years, nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) taken up by crops is quickly converted into protein. When forages grow under drought stress, however, they tend to accumulate nitrate. Alternative forages such as sorghums and sudans tend to accumulate even higher levels, w...

Remedies for Uterine Hæmorrhage

Remedies for pseudoreplication

Pseudoreplication is the failure of a statistical analysis to properly incorporate the true structure of randomness present in the data. It has been well documented and studied in the ecological literature but has received little attention in the fisheries literature. Avoiding pseudoreplication in analyses of fisheries data can be difficult due to the complexity of the statistical procedures re...

Herbal remedies for acne

Acne represents a significant challenge to dermatologists because of its prevalence, complexity and range of clinical expression. It is the single most common skin disease affecting 85% of teenage boys and 80% of teenage girls and can continue throughout adulthood. Treatment of acne with topical and systemic allopathic medicines results in mild to severe side effects. Hence, herbs and herbal pr...