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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.
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.
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Autorenporträt
Henry Oakeley is a retired consultant psychiatrist who has been interested in plants since the age of eight and an international authority on a group of South American orchids, on which he has written the definitive monograph and held the UK National Collections. Sometime adviser to the Chelsea Physic Garden, Honorary Research Associate at Kew and Singapore Botanic Gardens; chairman of the RHS Orchid Committee, RHS Council Member and currently RHS Vice President. He has lectured on orchids and exhibited them around the world; written over 250 articles on orchids and written (or co-authored) ten books relating to plants and their uses, and others on the English Civil War, the Anglo Boer war, and medical biographies. Since 2005 he has been Garden Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, London where he lectures on the plants in the Medicinal Garden. His orchid herbarium and drawings have been deposited at Kew, and his medicinal plant and orchid photographic archives at Kew and elsewhere. His current interest is in documenting the change of use of medicinal plants over the past two millennia. Anthony Dayan was Professor of Toxicology in the University of London at Queen Mary University, London. He has been involved with the development and regulation of drugs and the safety of consumer products for more than 40 years in universities, official agencies in many countries and in the pharmaceutical industry. He has been Chairman of the British Toxicology Society and in 2014 the American College of Toxicology elected him Distinguished Scientist of the Year. He has been a Garden Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 2014, a co-author of A Garden of Medicinal Plants [50 plants in the College Garden from the history of Medicine]. He catalogued the Pharmaceutical Society Herbarium at the College with Professor Michael de Swiet. He has a particular interest in the historical aspects of the dual use of certain plants as foods and medicines. He has lectured to many University of the Third Age (U3A) groups and other organisations on toxic risks and on plants and medicines.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Ammi majus ammi, false Queen Anne's lace, bullwort, bishop's weed, herb william ethoxsalen (8 methoxypsoralen) 2. Artemisia annua sweet wormwood, annual wormwood, Qing Hao artemesinin and derivatives 3. Atropa belladonna deadly nightshade; Datura stramonium Jimson weed; and Mandragora, Hyoscyamus, Brugmansia, Scopolia atropine and hyoscine 4. Betula pendula silver birch ß sitosterol 5. Camellia sinensis tea; Coffea arabica coffee; Theobroma cacao chocolate caffeine, theophylline 6. Camptotheca acuminata camptotheca camptothecin, topotecan and irinotecan 7. Capsicum annuum chilli pepper capsaicin 8. Catharanthus roseus Madagascar periwinkle, Cayenne Jasmine, old maid, rosy periwinkle vincristine, vinblastine 9. Cephalotaxus harringtonia Chinese plum yew harringtonine 10. Chondrodendron tomentosum curare vine tubocurarine 11. Cinchona species quinine tree, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark quinine, quinidine 12. Citrus x limon lemon vitamin C 13. Colchicum autumnale meadow saffron, autumn crocus, naked ladies colchicine 14. Digitalis purpurea purple foxglove digitoxin; Digitalis lanata woolly foxglove digoxin 15. Dioscorea polystachya yam; Glycine max soybean steroids 16. Ephedra sinica Joint pine, Mormon tea ephedrine, ecstasy 17. Erythroxylum coca coca bush cocaine 18. Euphorbia peplus common spurge ingenol mebutate 19. Galanthus nivalis snowdrop galantamine 20. Galega officinalis goat's rue phenformin, metformin 21. Glycyrrhiza glabra liquorice carbenoxolone, glycyrrhizic acid 22. Guaiacum officinale roughbark lignum vitae, guaiacwood alpha guaiaconic acid 23. Hordeum jubatum foxtail barley; Arundo donax giant reed lignocaine (lidocaine) and derivatives 24. Hordeum vulgare, Claviceps purpurea common barley, ergot ergometrine, ergotamine 25. Hydrangea febrifuga Asian hydrangea, Chinese quinine febrifugine, methaqualone, halofuginone 26. Illicium verum Chinese star anise; I. anisatum Japanese Star Anise oseltamivir 27. Inula helenium elecampane, enula, horseheal, scabwort, wild sunflower inulin 28. Melilotus officinalis melilot, ellow weet clover, king's clover, yellow melilot warfarin 29. Morus alba white mulberry miglustat, miglitol 30. Nicotiana tabacum tobacco nicotine, with a note on Lobelia lobeline, and Laburnum anagyroides cytisine 31. Papaver rhoeas corn or Flander's poppy rhoeadine, thebaine, oxycodone, etorphine and other derivatives 32. Papaver somniferum opium poppy morphine, codeine, noscapine, protopine 33. Physostigma venenosum Calabar bean physostigmine 34. Pilocarpus microphyllus jaborandi pilocarpine 35. Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple, American mandrake, Ground lemon; Podophyllum hexandrum Himalayan mayapple podophyllotoxin, etoposide, teniposide 36. Rauvolfia serpentina snake root reserpine 37. Salix alba willow; Filipendula ulmaria meadowsweet; Gaultheria procumbens wintergreen aspirin, salicylic acid and methyl salicylate 38. Silybum marianum milk thistle silymarin, Legalon SIL 39. Tanacetum cineriifolium pyrethrum, Dalmation chrysanthemum pyrethrins 40. Taxus baccata European yew; Taxus brevifolia Pacific yew paclitaxel and derivatives 41. Valeriana officinalis valerian sodium valproate 42. Veratrum album, V. nigrum false hellebores protoveratrine V. californicum cyclopamine and sonidegib 43. Visnaga daucoides khella nifedipine, amiodarone, sodium cromoglicate, nedocromil sodium 44. Excipients and Solvents 45. Vitamins
