Suprarenal Glands
Your adrenal, or suprarenal, glands are located on the top of each kidney. These glands produce hormones that you can't live without, including sex hormones and cortisol, which helps you respond to stress and has many other functions.
A number of disorders can affect the adrenal glands, including tumors. Tumors can be either benign or malignant. Benign tumors aren't cancer. Malignant ones are. Most adrenal gland tumors are benign. They usually do not cause symptoms and may not require treatment. Malignant adrenal gland cancers are uncommon.
Types of tumors include:
- Adrenocortical carcinoma - cancer in the outer part of the gland
- Neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer
- Pheochromocytoma - a rare tumor that is usually benign
Symptoms depend on the type of cancer you have. Treatments may include surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy.
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Materia Medica on Suprarenal Glands
SUPRARENAL GLANDS
The dried glands or an extract prepared from the same have been found to possess the power of causing contraction of capillary blood vessels. Solutions applied locally blanch the mucous membrane promptly. Therapeutically such solutions are applied with excellent effect in epistaxis. in coryza and hay fever (applied to nasal mucous membrane), in trachoma, conjunctivitis and in uterine hemorrhages. Internally the remedy is useful in Addison’s disease, in neurasthenia, in climacteric disturbances a1
The dried glands or an extract prepared from the same have been found to possess the power of causing contraction of capillary blood vessels. Solutions applied locally blanch the mucous membrane promptly. Therapeutically such solutions are applied with excellent effect in epistaxis. in coryza and hay fever (applied to nasal mucous membrane), in trachoma, conjunctivitis and in uterine hemorrhages. Internally the remedy is useful in Addison’s disease, in neurasthenia, in climacteric disturbances a1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.