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- catalog abstract "Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Today it is synthesized in the laboratory, and its use as an anticoagulant eventually could overshadow its use as an analgesic. Other botanical medicines that became significant to human health and well-being are pain-relievers from opium and coca, muscle relaxants from curare, blood anticoagulants from sweet clover, anticancer alkaloids from Madagascar periwinkle and Pacific yew, tranquilizers from snakeroot, and oral contraceptives from molecular precursors in tropical yams.".
- catalog alternative "Medicinal plants".
- catalog contributor b11743659.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "A brief history of medicinal botany -- Acquiring knowledge -- Medicinal plants in nature -- Toxins and cures: a cabinet of plant chemicals -- Defensive strategies and plant chemistry -- Significant discoveries -- Zoopharmacognosy and botanical toxins -- Chemical prospecting and new plant medicines -- Protecting medicinal biodiversity and knowledge -- Herbal histories, considerations, and caveats.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Today it is synthesized in the laboratory, and its use as an anticoagulant eventually could overshadow its use as an analgesic. Other botanical medicines that became significant to human health and well-being are pain-relievers from opium and coca, muscle relaxants from curare, blood anticoagulants from sweet clover, anticancer alkaloids from Madagascar periwinkle and Pacific yew, tranquilizers from snakeroot, and oral contraceptives from molecular precursors in tropical yams.".
- catalog extent "235 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0881924830".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portland, Or. : Timber Press,".
- catalog subject "2000 L-889".
- catalog subject "Botany, Medical.".
- catalog subject "Herbal Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Medicinal plants.".
- catalog subject "Phytotherapy History.".
- catalog subject "Plants, Medicinal.".
- catalog subject "QK99.A1 S86 2000X".
- catalog subject "QV 766 S956n 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "A brief history of medicinal botany -- Acquiring knowledge -- Medicinal plants in nature -- Toxins and cures: a cabinet of plant chemicals -- Defensive strategies and plant chemistry -- Significant discoveries -- Zoopharmacognosy and botanical toxins -- Chemical prospecting and new plant medicines -- Protecting medicinal biodiversity and knowledge -- Herbal histories, considerations, and caveats.".
- catalog title "Medicinal plants".
- catalog title "The natural history of medicinal plants / Judith Sumner ; foreword by Mark J. Plotkin.".
- catalog type "text".