Salary Range. As a comparison to the starting salary ranges in the University of Arkansas study, the mean annual salary for pharmacists at all levels was $112,160 as of May 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median, or midpoint, annual salary was $113,390.harmacists working in a health and personal care store earned a mean annual wage of $114,040. Pharmacists working in a hospital earned an average wage of $110,810 annually, while the yearly average for those in department stores was $109,240.
Prickly pear cactus is also used for medicine. Prickly pear cactus is used for type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, alcohol hangover, colitis, diarrhea, and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). It is also used to fight viral infections. In foods, the prickly pear juice is used in jellies and candies.
Cactus Pads-also called: Nopalitos and Cactus Leaves. All opuntia species are edible (non-toxic) but some species are easier to use than others. Two parts of the plant are edible, the pads (nopalitos) and the pear (tuna).The pads are vegetable and the pear is fruit. The State of Texas named the prickly pear cactus as the state fruit/vegetable in 1995. Prickly pears are fruit from the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) and may range in color from yellow-green to deep purple-red and in colour in size from that of an apricot to 6-inches long. For this reason, there is no accurate way of judging how many pears it may take to obtain a given amount.