But a renegade group of doctors use it for a far broader range of ills--everything from heart disease to memory impairment--despite scant evidence it works and potentially dangerous side effects.
As a dandy New York Times article explained, the state and its capital of Calcutta were in living memory the industrial heart of India.
Potential side effects can include fits, memory loss, potentially fatal heart problems and brain damage.
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Permanent damage, however, may occur among jet-setters and frequent travelers like flight attendants, who have been found to experience higher instances of memory loss, diabetes and heart disease.
He described Godiva as his "little gorgeous", and said her memory would forever remain in his heart.
When my predecessor, founding editor Laury Minard, died in the summer of 2001, some readers donated in his memory to an unusual charity that had captured his heart.
Samsung cranks out the flash memory and the ARM-based microprocessors now at the heart of today's iPhones and iPods.
Paula Lunt set up Craig's Heartstrong Foundation in memory of her son, who died from a undiagnosed heart defect in April 2005.
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It was what Croatia deserved for a display full of enterprise and heart - and what England deserved for one of their most inept displays in living memory.
At the heart of both men's research is a startling fact: The basic mechanics of memory formation in humans aren't much different from those of snails, flies and other simple creatures.
In this sense, and many others, the 3.11.11 disaster will continue to be exact a heavy toll on Japan, even as its heart-rending human and material toll in the Tohoku region grow dimmer in sight and memory.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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