Skullcap is the name of fictional ruins in the Dragonlance settings.
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Skullcap is a wonderful remedy for all states of nervous tension, for headaches, agitation, anxiety, insomnia, hysteria, neurasthenia, exhaustion and depression.
Skullcap is well worth using to aid withdrawal from orthodox tranquilizers and antidepressants, and is excellent when combined with hormone balancing herbs such as chaste tree or false unicorn root for PMS.
Skullcap was used traditionally in North America to treat bites of poisonous insects and snakes, and for rabies, as well as to quieten sexual over-excitement and relieve menstrual cramps.
Skullcap is generally recognized as a mild tonic and nervine, effective for insomnia, excitability, restlessness, and other nervous complaints.
A crude skullcap preparation was found to significantly inhibit rises in serum cholesterol in cholesterol-fed rabbits, while having no effect on the cholesterol levels of normal rabbits, thus indicating it prevents cholesterol absorption and increased choelesterol sequestering and elimination.
Skullcap may potentiate the effects of oral anticoagulants to the extent it stimulates the liver to catabolize and excrete cholesterol and its by-products via the biliary route.