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There are no previous records of this plant being a acne treatment, however, it has been used as a natural
Laxitive for many years, but due to its toxicity, it is a very risky
Herbal Medicine
Cascara Sagrada
Cascara Sagrada redirects to here, and yet the term "Cascara Sagrada" is not mentioned once in this article. Could someone please include this information?
The Jade Knight08:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Cause of Neuropathy
Under the topic of Peripheral Neuropathy there is a comment in the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that Buckthorn is demyelinating.
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Buckthorn →
Rhamnus – "buckthorn" is ambiguous and may refer to other genera within Rhamnaceae, e.g. Frangula, Hippophae, as well as outside it. Rhamnus is unambiguous and unique to a single genus. Wikipedia generally prefers Latin names for this reason.
Darorcilmir (
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08:30, 3 March 2013 (UTC)reply
SUPPORT - scientific names offer precision where the vernacular common names only promote confusion. On a related note, I assume all the appropriate disambiguation for various uses of "buckthorn" will be addressed. --
ColonelHenry (
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22:09, 3 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment. I'm here because a notice of this discussion was posted on the Wikiproject Classical Greece and Rome and WikiProject Greece talk pages as an Attic deme is one of the items listed on the disambiguation page
Rhamnus, though as an alternate form redirect. It used to be common practice to use a Latinate transliteration and call this place Rhamnus, but it's now preferred practice to transcribe ancient Greek sites' names using the so-called "scientific" transliteration, so our
Rhamnous—so named because of the many prickly bushes (rhamnos, whence this genus' Latin > Linnaean name) that grew there, apparently—is exactly where it should be. So I'm just saying that as a Hellenist, I don't think that the ancient site has a good claim to being the primary topic for Rhamnus, and if it fits policy (I have no idea) to have the current rhamnus go to
Rhamnus (disambiguation) so that the plant can have the primary topic slot, so be it. That would be why we have dab hats. davidiad{ t }04:38, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppose – The name should be moved, but I agree with 65.92.180.137: Rhamnus itself appears to be ambiguous, so this won't really accomplish much; better to move it to the more clearly unambiguous
Rhamnus (genus). Davidiad also has a good solution, but I prefer IP's suggestion.
Hamamelis (
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05:50, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment.After 65.92.180.137's notification
here I'm also commenting.My view and origin is close to davidiad { t }'s but with some notes:
1.As others have already said it's not really unambiguous so I'm of the opinion that ceteris paribus there should be no change-move.
2.If on the other hand the change is to be mutatis mutandis, i.e. there is to be a disambiguation page, etymology sections, links within the article(s) to the homonymous articles, then ok SUPPORT to the primacy change as per davidiad.
3.a)But for the change to be made we must also first consider what davidiad said but on the flip side, i.e. that Ramnus (the place) has been transliterated for ages with a "u", not an "ou".The latter might be etymologically more "correct" and less ambiguous (Ραμνοῦς -> Ramnous ; Ράμνος -> Ramnos -> Ramnus as per grecolatin noun declension group equivalence) but age old habits might be hard to change.Btw I myself despite being Greek, both a Hellen and a somewhat Hellenist, had heard of
Ramnus but not of
ramnus till now, i.e. I didn't know the etymology till know(my bad;thank you Davidiadan for this and thank you all for the chance to do it!).So I think that (many) other people have to be considered first on whether they feel ok with Ramnus linking primarily to the plant's article herein.
Semi-support. If Rhamnus is but one kind of Buckthorn, then Rhamnus should be an article on the kind, and Buckthorn an article on the kinds.
LCS check (
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20:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)reply
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