{"product_id":"modern-medicines-from-plants-9781032534343","title":"Modern Medicines from Plants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe full colour, beautifully illustrated \u003cem\u003eModern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicine's most important drugs \u003c\/em\u003efeatures information on plants from which we obtain modern prescription medicines. It outlines their historical uses as herbal medicines in the past two millennia, using primary sources, and describes how extracts from them, and their semisynthetic and synthetic derivatives, were developed to be today's therapeutic drugs and diagnostic chemicals. This book describes medicinal plants and their habitats, the diseases that their medicines treat, and the science of how they work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis amazing and unique book is a wonderful read for those with an interest in both herbal and prescription medicines. Written with authority by physicians and gardeners at the Garden of Medicinal Plants at the Royal College of Physicians, London, chapters detail the history and modern scientific research on plants and their medicines. It is very useful to p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Modern medicine from plants\" is a very accessible addition to any collection of books on nature and how we might benefit from its gentle management and sensitive interaction, especially when we need help \"on the fly\" or in the field.” \u003c\/em\u003eG. Carlo Laurenzi OBE - former CEO of the Wildlife Trust; London; adviser to DEFRA; past member of the founding board of Rewilding Britain; and a long-time forager and bushcrafter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. \u003cem\u003eAmmi majus\u003c\/em\u003e – ammi, false Queen Anne’s lace, bullwort, bishop’s weed, herb william – ethoxsalen (8-methoxypsoralen) 2. \u003cem\u003eArtemisia annua\u003c\/em\u003e – sweet wormwood, annual wormwood, Qing-Hao – artemesinin and derivatives 3. \u003cem\u003eAtropa belladonna\u003c\/em\u003e – deadly nightshade; \u003cem\u003eDatura stramonium\u003c\/em\u003e – Jimson weed; and \u003cem\u003eMandragora, Hyoscyamus, Brugmansia, Scopolia\u003c\/em\u003e – atropine and hyoscine 4. \u003cem\u003eBetula pendula\u003c\/em\u003e – silver birch - β-sitosterol 5. \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e - tea; \u003cem\u003eCoffea arabica\u003c\/em\u003e – coffee; \u003cem\u003eTheobroma cacao\u003c\/em\u003e – chocolate – caffeine, theophylline 6. \u003cem\u003eCamptotheca acuminata \u003c\/em\u003e– camptotheca – camptothecin, topotecan and irinotecan 7. \u003cem\u003eCapsicum annuum\u003c\/em\u003e – chilli pepper – capsaicin 8. \u003cem\u003eCatharanthus roseus\u003c\/em\u003e – Madagascar periwinkle, Cayenne Jasmine, old maid, rosy periwinkle – vincristine, vinblastine 9. \u003cem\u003eCephalotaxus harringtonia \u003c\/em\u003e– Chinese plum yew – harringtonine 10. \u003cem\u003eChondrodendron tomentosum\u003c\/em\u003e – curare vine – tubocurarine 11. \u003cem\u003eCinchona species\u003c\/em\u003e – quinine tree, Jesuit’s bark, Peruvian bark – quinine, quinidine 12. \u003cem\u003eCitrus x limon\u003c\/em\u003e – lemon – vitamin C 13. \u003cem\u003eColchicum autumnale\u003c\/em\u003e – meadow saffron, autumn crocus, naked ladies – colchicine 14. \u003cem\u003eDigitalis purpurea\u003c\/em\u003e – purple foxglove – digitoxin; \u003cem\u003eDigitalis lanata\u003c\/em\u003e – woolly foxglove – digoxin 15. Dios\u003cem\u003ecorea polystachya\u003c\/em\u003e – yam; \u003cem\u003eGlycine max\u003c\/em\u003e – soybean – steroids 16. \u003cem\u003eEphedra sinica\u003c\/em\u003e – Joint pine, Mormon tea – ephedrine, ecstasy 17. \u003cem\u003eErythroxylum coca\u003c\/em\u003e – coca bush – cocaine 18. \u003cem\u003eEuphorbia peplus\u003c\/em\u003e – common spurge – ingenol mebutate 19. \u003cem\u003eGalanthus nivalis\u003c\/em\u003e – snowdrop – galantamine 20. \u003cem\u003eGalega officinalis\u003c\/em\u003e – goat’s rue – phenformin, metformin 21. \u003cem\u003eGlycyrrhiza glabra\u003c\/em\u003e – liquorice – carbenoxolone, glycyrrhizic acid 22. \u003cem\u003eGuaiacum officinale \u003c\/em\u003e– roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood – alpha-guaiaconic acid 23. \u003cem\u003eHordeum jubatum\u003c\/em\u003e – foxtail barley; \u003cem\u003eArundo donax\u003c\/em\u003e – giant reed – lignocaine (lidocaine) and derivatives 24. \u003cem\u003eHordeum vulgare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eClaviceps purpurea\u003c\/em\u003e – common barley, ergot – ergometrine, ergotamine 25. \u003cem\u003eHydrangea febrifuga\u003c\/em\u003e – Asian hydrangea, Chinese quinine – febrifugine, methaqualone, halofuginone 26.\u003cem\u003e Illicium verum\u003c\/em\u003e – Chinese star anise;\u003cem\u003e I. anisatum\u003c\/em\u003e – Japanese Star Anise – oseltamivir 27. \u003cem\u003eInula helenium\u003c\/em\u003e – elecampane, enula, horseheal, scabwort, wild sunflower – inulin 28. \u003cem\u003eMelilotus officinalis\u003c\/em\u003e – melilot, ellow weet clover, king’s clover, yellow melilot – warfarin 29. \u003cem\u003eMorus alba \u003c\/em\u003e– white mulberry – miglustat, miglitol 30. \u003cem\u003eNicotiana tabacum\u003c\/em\u003e – tobacco – nicotine, with a note on \u003cem\u003eLobelia \u003c\/em\u003e– lobeline, and \u003cem\u003eLaburnum anagyroides \u003c\/em\u003e– cytisine 31. \u003cem\u003ePapaver rhoeas\u003c\/em\u003e – corn or Flander’s poppy – rhoeadine, thebaine, oxycodone, etorphine and other derivatives 32.\u003cem\u003e Papaver somniferum\u003c\/em\u003e – opium poppy – morphine, codeine, noscapine, protopine 33. \u003cem\u003ePhysostigma venenosum\u003c\/em\u003e – Calabar bean – physostigmine 34. \u003cem\u003ePilocarpus microphyllus \u003c\/em\u003e– jaborandi – pilocarpine 35. \u003cem\u003ePodophyllum peltatum\u003c\/em\u003e – Mayapple, American mandrake, Ground lemon; \u003cem\u003ePodophyllum hexandrum\u003c\/em\u003e – Himalayan mayapple – podophyllotoxin, etoposide, teniposide 36. \u003cem\u003eRauvolfia serpentina \u003c\/em\u003e– snake root – reserpine 37. \u003cem\u003eSalix alba\u003c\/em\u003e – willow; \u003cem\u003eFilipendula ulmaria \u003c\/em\u003e– meadowsweet; \u003cem\u003eGaultheria procumbens\u003c\/em\u003e – wintergreen – aspirin, salicylic acid and methyl salicylate 38. \u003cem\u003eSilybum marianum\u003c\/em\u003e – milk thistle – silymarin, Legalon-SIL 39. \u003cem\u003eTanacetum cineriifolium\u003c\/em\u003e – pyrethrum, Dalmation chrysanthemum – pyrethrins 40. \u003cem\u003eTaxus baccata\u003c\/em\u003e – European yew; \u003cem\u003eTaxus brevifolia \u003c\/em\u003e–Pacific yew – paclitaxel and derivatives 41. \u003cem\u003eValeriana officinalis\u003c\/em\u003e – valerian – sodium valproate 42. \u003cem\u003eVeratrum album\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eV. nigrum\u003c\/em\u003e – false hellebores – protoveratrine – \u003cem\u003eV. californicum \u003c\/em\u003e– cyclopamine and sonidegib 43. \u003cem\u003eVisnaga daucoides\u003c\/em\u003e – khella – nifedipine, amiodarone, sodium cromoglicate, nedocromil sodium 44. 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