The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicine’s most important drugs features 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.
This 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 physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, historians and gardeners, bringing together information from every discipline to make it a work of interest as well as reference.
Features
· Written for people interested in medicinal plants, where medicines come from, and how they treat our diseases.
· Contains information on 50 plants, mostly growing in the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians in London, describing how they became the source of modern pharmaceutical medicines.
· Describes medicinal uses of plants in Classical Greece as written by Dioscorides, Pliny and Galen, through the flowering of Arabic medicine by physicians such as Paulus Aegineta, Mesue and Avicenna to the 12th to 14th century compilations of Serapion and Sylvaticus and the European Renaissance of Peter Treveris, William Turner, Leonard Fuchs, Pietro Mattioli, John Gerarde, John Parkinson, Nicholas Culpeper, and many others to the pharmacopoeias of the 16th century to the present day.
· Fully referenced including a glossary for explanation of technical terms.
Author(s): Henry Oakeley (editor)
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 391
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Ammi majus – ammi, false Queen Anne’s lace, bullwort, bishop’s weed, herb William – methoxsalen (8-methoxypsoralen)
Chapter 2 Artemisia annua – sweet wormwood, annual wormwood, Qing-Hao – artemisinin and derivatives
Chapter 3 Atropa belladonna – deadly nightshade; Datura stramonium – Jimson weed; and Mandragora, Hyoscyamus, Brugmansia, Scopolia – atropine and hyoscine
Chapter 4 Betula pendula – silver birch – ß-sitosterol
Chapter 5 Camellia sinensis – tea; Coffea arabica – coffee; Theobroma cacao – chocolate – caffeine, theophylline
Chapter 6 Camptotheca acuminata – camptotheca – camptothecin, topotecan and irinotecan
Chapter 7 Capsicum annuum – chilli pepper – capsaicin
Chapter 8 Catharanthus roseus – Madagascar periwinkle, Cayenne jasmine, old maid, rosy periwinkle – vincristine, vinblastine
Chapter 9 Cephalotaxus harringtonia – Chinese plum yew – harringtonine
Chapter 10 Chondrodendron tomentosum – curare vine – tubocurarine
Chapter 11 Cinchona species – quinine tree, Jesuit’s bark, Peruvian bark – quinine, quinidine
Chapter 12 Citrus x limon – lemon – vitamin C
Chapter 13 Colchicum autumnale – meadow saffron, autumn crocus, naked ladies – colchicine
Chapter 14 Digitalis purpurea – purple foxglove – digitoxin; Digitalis lanata – woolly foxglove – digoxin
Chapter 15 Dioscorea polystachya – yam; Glycine max – soybean – steroids
Chapter 16 Ephedra sinica – joint pine, Mormon tea – ephedrine, ecstasy
Chapter 17 Erythroxylum coca – coca bush – cocaine
Chapter 18 Euphorbia peplus – common spurge – ingenol mebutate
Chapter 19 Galanthus nivalis – snowdrop – galantamine
Chapter 20 Galega officinalis – goat’s rue – phenformin, metformin
Chapter 21 Glycyrrhiza glabra – liquorice – carbenoxolone, glycyrrhizic acid
Chapter 22 Guaiacum officinale – roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood – alpha-guaiaconic acid
Chapter 23 Hordeum jubatum – foxtail barley; Arundo donax – giant reed – lignocaine (lidocaine) and derivatives
Chapter 24 Hordeum vulgare, Claviceps purpurea – common barley, ergot – ergometrine, ergotamine
Chapter 25 Hydrangea febrifuga – Asian hydrangea, Chinese quinine – febrifugine, methaqualone, halofuginone
Chapter 26 Illicium verum – Chinese star anise; I. anisatum – Japanese star anise – oseltamivir
Chapter 27 Inula helenium – elecampane, enula, horseheal, scabwort, wild sunflower – inulin
Chapter 28 Melilotus officinalis – melilot, yellow sweet clover, king’s clover, yellow melilot – warfarin
Chapter 29 Morus alba – white mulberry – miglustat, migalastat, miglitol
Chapter 30 Nicotiana tabacum – tobacco – nicotine, with a note on Lobelia – lobeline, and Laburnum anagyroides – cytisine
Chapter 31 Papaver rhoeas – corn or Flanders poppy – rhoeadine, thebaine, oxycodone, etorphine and other derivatives
Chapter 32 Papaver somniferum – opium poppy – morphine, codeine, noscapine, protopine
Chapter 33 Physostigma venenosum – Calabar bean – physostigmine
Chapter 34 Pilocarpus microphyllus – jaborandi – pilocarpine
Chapter 35 Podophyllum peltatum – mayapple, American mandrake, ground lemon; Podophyllum hexandrum – Himalayan mayapple – podophyllotoxin, etoposide, teniposide
Chapter 36 Rauvolfia serpentina – snake root – reserpine
Chapter 37 Salix alba – willow; Filipendula ulmaria – meadowsweet; Gaultheria procumbens – wintergreen – aspirin, salicylic acid, methyl salicylate
Chapter 38 Silybum marianum – milk thistle – silymarin, Legalon-SIL
Chapter 39 Tanacetum cinerariifolium – pyrethrum, Dalmatian chrysanthemum – pyrethrins
Chapter 40 Taxus baccata – European yew; Taxus brevifolia – Pacific yew – paclitaxel and derivatives
Chapter 41 Valeriana officinalis – valerian – sodium valproate
Chapter 42 Veratrum album, V. nigrum – false hellebores – protoveratrine – V. californicum – cyclopamine, sonidegib
Chapter 43 Visnaga daucoides – khella – nifedipine, amiodarone, sodium cromoglicate, nedocromil sodium
Chapter 44 Excipients and Solvents
Chapter 45 Vitamins
Appendices
Appendix 1 Historical references before 1700 and Linnaeus
Appendix 2 Dramatis personae. The main historical personages
Appendix 3 Glossary
Index Chemicals and Drugs
Index Plant Names
The Authors
