Talk:Galantamine

Broken link
http://removed/f/Pharmacological_Induction_of_Lucid_Dreams.pdf This is possibly broken. Please update this reference [10] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.52.244 (talk) 11:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

done.. 3 years later..lol -Tracer9999 (talk) 18:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

April 23, 2006

 * Galanthamine - I did some cleanup, but the page still has some organization issues and formatting problems that I don't currently have time to deal with. Exabyte (talk) 19:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I added some more specific tags, and did what I could... but the article needs extensive attention by someone who can translate chemistryspeak into plain English. It also needs references formatted properly, and I'm not too good at that yet.  ONUnicorn 19:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * yeah, this pretty much is a mess, but at least there is content here. I may take a pass at cleaning it up.  I am trying to find an example of a neutral POV drug that includes key information from the label.--Chrispounds 20:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Numbers in parenthesis
Are those supposed to be references? If they should be converted. I'm not sure that's what they are though. ONUnicorn 19:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine & lucid dreaming
It should be cited I guess: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201246

This article claims that galantamine is available over-the-counter, based off the very first source cited in the article from drugs.com. However, that article DOES NOT say that. In fact it says the contrary- that galantamine is available by prescription only!!! Yes you can buy "galantamine" off amazon and walmart, however the FDA doesn't regulate supplements and many supplements sold by major retailers have been found to contain none of the labelled ingredients, hence I think galantamine really is prescription only. Sorry if I didn't follow the proper protocol for commenting on this thing as this is my first time and I don't know how it's supposed to be properly done. Also, I have not edited anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UkrainianDude5656 (talk • contribs) 11:34, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Medical uses / Dual FDA status
Reference [19] does not mention "dual status". Also "OTC dietary supplement" is a term not used by the FDA. Substances are either drugs (which) can be OTC (without prescription) or dietary supplements (which aren't drugs). Galantamine is approved as a drug but it is not in the FDA's list of GRAS substances (https://www.cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=GRASNotices). In fact, the FDA sent a warning letter on May 4, 2006, against galantamine being "eligible to be classified as a 'dietary supplement' (https://quackwatch.org/cases/fdawarning/prod/fda-warning-letters-about-products-2002/lifeenhancement/) Kmwittko (talk) 02:52, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Archived Link to mythology
Reference [14] to old.life-enhancement.com/magazine/article/488-fight-alzheimers-disease was defunct and found at https://web.archive.org/web/20200509073655/http://old.life-enhancement.com/magazine/article/488-fight-alzheimers-disease and lead to the citation (2) Plaitakis A, Duvoisin RC, Homer's moly identified as Galanthus nivalis L. (1983) Plaitakis A and Duvoisin RC in turn cite (5) ''Phantastica; narcotic and stimulating drugs, their use and abuse. Lewin, L. (1931).'', saying that D. stramonium was known to ancient Greeks. According to Phantastica - a classic survey of the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Lewin (1998), Lewin (in 1931) cites "Judging by these symptoms I consider this plant to be datura or hyoscyamus, more probably the former. Although the similarity of the mode of action of the plants of the group of solanaceæ is very great, there are nevertheless gradations in the symptoms of intoxication which render it possible to determine a particular species with a certain degree of accuracy."(g. 110) Per an update in literature in 2008 via Geeta and Gharaibeh, no Datura plants should be assumed to have been known to the Greeks prior to the first millennium CE. The first to appear was Datura metel, so perhaps hyoscyamus should be the assumed plant. As Lewin refers to indigenous American peoples as "intellectually uncivilized people [who] attribute their visions to a supernatural and religious origin"(pg. 114) references to judgements produced in Phantastica should not be used for citations alone. Issue in this article was solved prior to this Talk section addition. Crown of Ivy (talk) 18:36, 5 February 2024 (UTC)