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Medicine and Plant Exploration

American journal of pharmacy and the sciences supporting public health, 1947
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
R H, CHENEY, B L, MILANA
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Obesity and medicinal plants

Fitoterapia, 2000
The effects of some medicinal plants (i.e. Fucus vesiculosus, Citrus aurantium) that are claimed to be useful in the treatment of obesity are reviewed.
C O, Moro, G, Basile
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Medicinal plants of the Mapuche

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1985
A list of 136 plants used for medicinal purposes by the Mapuche Amerindians of Chile has been compiled. This is the first such list in English and is important due to the disappearance of Mapuche culture with increasing urbanisation. Some introduced plants have been incorporated into the traditional medicine of the Mapuche since the advent of European ...
P J, Houghton, J, Manby
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Synergy in Plant Medicines

Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2003
The notion that medicines derived from plants depend for their action on active principles present has to be modified in view of the findings that there are, in many cases, adjuvant substances in the plant which enhance the activity of the components actually responsible for the effect.
Benjamin, Gilbert, Lucio Ferreira, Alves
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Medicinal plants and industry

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1980
Beyond their direct use in traditional medicine, medicinal plants are used on an industrial scale to produce total extracts and tinctures, purified extracts and chemical products. The importance of the appropriate solvents to prepare extracts and their correct use in pharmaceutical formulations are emphasized. Generally, purified extracts, because they
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Medicinal plants of Seychelles

Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 1996
Plants are known to contain pharmacologically active substances. Traditional medical practitioners have considerable knowledge of herbal medicines. The Seychelles have many unique plants which have not been studied in depth. The people of Seychelles originate from diverse ethnic backgrounds which has resulted in a culture with a strong tra dition of ...
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Phytochemistry and medicinal plants

Phytochemistry, 2001
A truncated history of the contribution of plants to medicine is given with reference to some of the less well known ancestors of the Harborne family. Six of the top 20 prescriptions dispensed in 1996 were natural products and the clinical use of drugs such as artemisinin, etoposide and taxol has once more focussed attention on plants as sources of ...
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Immunomodulation by Medicinal Plants

1992
Kampo medicines originally developed in ancient China are crude drugs containing extracts from 5 to 10 or more different species of herbs or plants in a specific combination and proportion. These were the mainstream of medicine in Japan for over 1,000 years until replaced by western synthetic medicines in the late 19th Century. However, in the last few
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Medicinal plants in Colombia

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1980
The botanical aspects of the plants of Colombia have been studied thoroughly since the 18th century. Nevertheless, although plants are used to a large extent in traditional medicine in Colombia, there has been little investigation into their properties. Some research has not been initiated.
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