Strontium Health Dictionary

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Strontium: From 2 Different Sources

A metallic element occurring in various compounds in certain minerals, seawater, and marine plants.

A radioactive variety, strontium 90, is produced during nuclear reactions and may be present in nuclear fallout.

Strontium 90 accumulates in bone, where the radiation it emits may cause leukaemia and/or bone tumours.

Other forms of radioactive strontium have been used to diagnose and treat bone tumours.

Health Source: BMA Medical Dictionary
Author: The British Medical Association
n. a yellow metallic element, absorption of which causes bone damage when its atoms displace calcium in bone. The radioactive isotope strontium-90, which emits beta rays, is used in radiotherapy for the *contact therapy of skin and eye tumours and in *radioimmunotherapy in combination with *monoclonal antibodies. Another isotope, strontium-89 (Metastron), has an established role in the treatment of metastatic carcinoma: it is given by intravenous injection for the relief of pain due to bone metastases. Symbol: Sr.
Health Source: Oxford | Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Author: Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin

Edta

Ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid is used to treat poisoning with metals such as lead and strontium. One of the CHELATING AGENTS, EDTA is used in the form of sodium or calcium salts. The stable chelate compounds resulting from the treatment are excreted in the urine.... edta

Fucus Vesiculosus

Linn.

Family: Fucaceae. (Laminaria sp.)

Habitat: On the shores of the United Kingdom, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Coast of America; as a weed; found in Indian Ocean on the Manora Rocks. Allied species—F. distichus Linn., and F nodosus Linn. (Included in Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants, CSIR, also in its second supplement.) F. nodosus is found in India along sea shores.

English: Bladderwrack, Black Tang, Rockweed, Kelp.

Action: Weed—one of the richest source of minerals, chiefly iodine, sodium, manganese, sulphur, silicon, zinc and copper. Effective against obesity, antirheumatic. Stimulates circulation of lymph. Endocrine gland stimulant. Allays onset of arteriosclerosis by maintaining elasticity of walls of blood vessels. Mild diuretic, bulk, laxative, antibiotic. High sodium content may reduce effectiveness of diuretics.

(The herb contains trace metal, particularly iodine from 0.03-1.0%. It may contain waste metals such as cadmium and strontium, when grown in a polluted environment. Variable iodine content and arsenic contamination make the herb unsafe.)

The herb should be used with caution in hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Excess thyroid activity maybe aggravated by the iodine content of the herb; it may disrupt thyroid function. One gram of Bladderwrack might contain as much as 600 mcg iodine (Ingesting more than 150 mcg iodine per day may cause hyperthyroidism or exacerbate existing hyperthyroidism.) (Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, 2007.)

Due to the antithrombin effects ofits fucan polysaccharides, consumption of the herb in cases of G1 bleeding disorders is contraindicated.

(Included among unapproved herbs by German Commission E.)... fucus vesiculosus

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