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"Medicinal plants containing salicin: effectiveness and safety', British Journal of Phytotherapy 1: 36-42. Mills, S. and Bone, K. 2000, The Principles and Practices of Phytotherapy, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh. Rao, K., McBride, T. and Oleson, J. 1968, Cancer Research 28: 1952-1954. Robbers, J. E. and Tyler, V. E. 1999, Tyler's Herbs of Choice, Haworth Herbal Press, New York. San Feliciano, A., Gordaliza, M., Miguel del Corral, J. M., Castro, M. A., Garcia-Gravalos, M. D. and Ruiz-Lazaro, P. 1993, 'Antineoplastic and antiviral activities of some cyclolignans', Planta Medica 59: 246-249." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.) "Pharmacognosy Phytochemistry medicinal plants, Lavoisier Pubs, Paris. Carey, F. A. 2000, Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., McGraw Hill, Boston. Cronquist, A. 1988, The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants, 2nd edn, New York Botanical Gardens. Duke, J. A. and Bogenschutz-Godwin, M. J. 1999, 'The synergy principle at work in plants, pathogens, insects, herbivores, and humans', in P. B. Kaufman, L. J. Cseke, S. Warber, J. A. Duke and H. L. Brielmann, Natural Products from Plants, CRC Press, Boca Raton. Evans, W. C." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.) "The Constituents of medicinal plants was never designed as a pure exposition of chemical structures—I leave that to the analytical chemists. My belief is that the structures give us an important insight into the way herbal medicines act, and are a way of rationalising many of the traditional applications that have been passed down over the centuries. The structures also give us valuable information into the potential for adverse reactions and interactions with pharmaceutical drugs." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.) "Pharmacognosy Phytochemistry medicinal plants, Lavoisier Pubs, Paris. Cadenis, E. and Hochstein, P. 1992, Advances in Enzymology 65: 97-146. Cheong, H., Ryu, S. and Kim, K. 1999, 'Anti-allergic action of reveratrol and related hydroxystilbenes', Planta Medica 65: 266-268. Chrubasik, S., Eisenberg, E., Balon, E., Weinberger, T., Luzzati, R. and Conradt, C. 2000, 'Treatment of low back pain exacerbations with willow bark extract: a randomised double-blind study', American Journal of Medicine 109: 9-14. Creasy, L. L. and Creasy, M. T." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Over the centuries man made use of medicinal plants even though he was unable to find a rational explanation for their effects. It was not until the 19th century and the rapid development of organic chemistry and pharmacology, that man determined which active principles or group of principles are responsible for a given therapeutic effect. Knowledge of these substances made possible not only their application in therapy but natural substances frequently served as a model for the synthetic preparation of new medicines, enabling the drug to be modified and made more effective." - Frantisek Stary, The Natural Guide to medicinal plants and Herbs (Get the book.)

"The classical herbal pharmacopoeias in the period included Prescription in Jade Box written by Hong Ge, Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold written by Simiao Sun, who at that time was regarded as the "drug king," and The Historically Classified Materia Medica (which recorded 1,558 kinds of medicines in Song dynasty). During the next millennium, from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911 A.D." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"There are many thousands of medicinal plants in use throughout the world, with a tremendous range of actions and degrees of potency. Most have a specific action on particular body systems and are known to be suitable for treating certain types of ailments. See p. 13 for specific actions. Digestion, Respiration & Circulation Improving the quality of the diet is often an essential starting point in sustaining or regaining good health. The saying "You are what you eat" is by and large true, though herbalists prefer to qualify it, saying "You are what you absorb from what you eat." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"What are the medicinal plants grown in the vicinity already, and the measures which might be taken for extending the cultivation of them? ... What are the medical and chemical preparations made in the district from vegetables used in medicine?... What are the mines and other localities yielding crude mineral substances, and the quantities of them attainable for medical purposes? .. . What are the preparations of these now manufactured, and the practicability of producing them on a more extensive scale?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The genus Alchemilla includes a great number of described species and lower taxons, difficult to differentiate even for an experienced botanist, let alone for a person gathering medicinal plants. Lady's Mantle is considered to be an aggregate of species native to the temperate regions of Europe, western Asia, north Africa and southeastern Canada. Elsewhere it is an introduced species. The flowering stems and the basal leaves only are used for medicinal purposes. Undamaged paper sacks, protected from light, are used to store the drug. If overdried, Lady's Mantle readily crumbles." - Frantisek Stary, The Natural Guide to medicinal plants and Herbs (Get the book.)

"The Development of Medicinal Lore It is generally recognized that our ancestors had a wide range of medicinal plants at their disposal, and that they likewise possessed a profound understanding of plants' healing powers. In fact, up until the 20th century, every village and rural community had a wealth of herbal folklore. Tried and tested local plants were picked for a range of common health problems and taken as teas, applied as lotions, or even mixed with lard and rubbed in as an ointment. But what were the origins of this herbal expertise? There are no definitive answers." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"The characteristics making a plant recognizable to nonliterate nonspecialists are likely to overlap with the characteristics that will increase the chance that plants contain substantial quantities of biologically active chemicals." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Slash and bum" farming in die rainforest of Brazil results in the eradication of native medicinal plants. Efforts are now under way to provide local farmers with alternative means of profiting from the land. marked a turning point in the public's opinion of chemical medicines. People began to realize that a serious cost could accompany the benefits of modern drug treatment. Together with the factors described below, this has brought about a sea change in public perceptions of the value of herbal medicine." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.) "How medicinal plants Work Many of the thousands of plant species growing throughout the world have medicinal uses, containing active constituents that have a direct action on the body. They are used both in herbal and conventional medicine and offer benefits that pharmaceutical drugs often lack, helping to combat illness and support the body's efforts to regain good health. There is no doubt that in extreme situations the treatments devised by modern medicine can offer an unparalleled opportunity to relieve symptoms and save lives." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Cameroonians consume medicinal plants the way Westerners use Advil or Nyquil. The majaimainjombe, or blood-of-an-animal plant, is used as a pain reliever. The oil palm counteracts everything from measles to hernias. The bush mango is said to produce Ychromosomes, so members of the Ebu and Bayangi tribes eat it before procreating in order to conceive boys. Benjamin and his wife, Doris, have three children—all girls. Didn't he use bush mango? "Traditions differ," he laughs. "We don't eat it where I come from." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "While modern-day mountebanks sell magic potions at Yaounde's intersections, many of the garden's potent medicinal plants remain underutilized. The iboga plant bears yellow teardrop fruits sometimes eaten by elephants. More important, its roots and bark are used in initiation rituals by the Bwiti secret society in southern Cameroon and Gabon. Their entheogenic ceremonies, called "breaking open the head," are done to establish communication with ancestors. In addition to being a profound hallucinatory experience, iboga eliminates withdrawal symptoms associated with opiate dependency." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A 60,000-year-old burial site excavated in Iraq, for instance, was found to contain eight different medicinal plants, including ephedra (Ephedra sinica, p. 93). The inclusion of the plants in the tomb suggests they had supernatural significance as well as medicinal value. In some cultures plants were considered to have souls. Even Aristotle, the 4th-century BC Greek philosopher, thought that plants had a "psyche," albeit of a lesser order than the human soul. In Hinduism, which dates back to at least 1500 BC, many plants are sacred to specific divinities." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh; accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. London: printed and sold for the author by J. Phillips, 1793, Vol. 3, pi. no. 167.) ties. A good example of this is diosgenin, which was isolated from the Mexican yam (Dioscorea spp.) and is a starting material for the synthesis of the hormones typically used in birth control pills." - Bryan Hanson, PhD, Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry And Therapeutic Action (Get the book.)

"Flavonoids are a group of compounds found in many fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and numerous medicinal plants. Over 4,000 different flavonoids have been identified in foods and plants. Quercetin, rutin, catechin, and hesperidin are the most frequently used in medicine. Flavonoids inhibit the peroxidation of lipids by acting as free radical scavengers.284 Quercetin specifically has been shown to inhibit LDL oxidation.285 In addition to these direct antioxidant effects, flavonoids inhibit platelet aggregation, protect vitamin E from oxidation, and chelate iron." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The following herbs are some of the most common medicinal plants used in traditional herbal practice for promoting and maintaining health during pregnancy. Dandelion Leaf and Root (Taraxacum Officinale). Dandelion is a potent source of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin A, calcium, potassium, and iron. Mildly diuretic and stimulating to bile flow, dandelion leaf helps with the inevitable digestive complaints of pregnancy, and its root cleanses and tones the liver.117 In early pregnancy, dandelion can help to alleviate nausea, upset stomach, and indigestion." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER ^ xxxx B y now I had notes on hundreds of medicinal plants and a substantial amount of empirical evidence to help check the reliability of my data. I'd accomplished about as much as I could manage for now, if "accomplish" is the right word. I'm not sure. It has all been so much fian that on the rare occasions I've managed to be paid anything, I've had a slight, secret feeling of guilt. You wouldn't expect to be paid for an exciting, sometimes hilarious vacation, would you? And that was mostly what this work, especially the jungle part, felt like." - Nicole Maxwell, Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for medicinal plants in the Amazon (Get the book.)

"The Arabs used the plant long before Linnaeus named it after Colchis at the Black Sea. In the seventeenth century European medicine widely embraced it.15 Meadow saffron was used both to treat gout as well as rheumatic complaints. These unclear indications and the high toxicity induced Nothnagel and Rossbach to advise against the application of colchicine even up to around 1900.16 Nevertheless, until today it has remained the only specific therapy against acute gout attack. The most significant discovery in the field of antitumor substances deriving from folk medicine is owed to a coincidence." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh; accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. London: printed and sold for the author by J. Phillips, 1790, Vol. 1, pi. no. 24.) If one adds two carbons to ethane to create butane, the possible structures are more numerous. Butane's formula is CH^CHi^CH^ which can also be written19 CH3CH2CH7CH3; we can rotate around three carbon-carbon bonds." - Bryan Hanson, PhD, Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry And Therapeutic Action (Get the book.)

"It is one of the classic medicinal plants tested by centuries of use. New uses, e. g. in the treatment of herpes and rheumatism, have yet to be clinically tested. 2 Blessed Thistle (1) is an annual herb with a richly branched, densely spiny stem, reaching a height of more than half a metre. It grows on sunny, stony banks, in waste places, and by waysides in warm districts in lowland regions, less often in hilly country." - Frantisek Stary, The Natural Guide to medicinal plants and Herbs (Get the book.)

"Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh; accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. London: printed and sold for the author by J. Phillips, 1793, Vol. 3, pi. no. 200.) they are needed. Polarity also has a number of very practical applications in the laboratory, some of which we will discuss in detail in Chapter 5. For now, we will lay out the basic concepts of polarity. Polarity refers to the separation of charge in a molecule." - Bryan Hanson, PhD, Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry And Therapeutic Action (Get the book.)

"This is not surprising, given the range of highly effective medicinal plants Native Americans had discovered ?including well-known herbs such as echinacea (Echinacea angustifolia, p. 90), goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis, p. 103), and lobelia (Lobelia injlata, p. 108). European settlers learned much from observing native practices. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries as pioneers moved west across the frontier territory, new plants were constantly being added to the official record of healing herbs." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Further on, therapeutics became more open to faith healing, magic, and superstition—losing if not all then at least a large part of the ancient heritage, particularly in the popular manuals of therapeutics, the so-called iatrosophia.1 Plant representations were submitted to the same erosion: the realistic pictures illustrating Dioscorides' text on the model of Kratevas' herbal became more and more schematic and no longer enabled the recognition of plants in the field.8 In the West the legacy of antiquity was very soon reduced to poor manuals principally aimed at practical use." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Bombardelli E: Technologies for the processing of medicinal plants. In: The Medicinal Plant Industry (Wijeskera ROB, ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1991, pp. 85-98. 5. Awang DVC and Kindack DG: Echinacea. Can Pharmacol J 124, 512-516,1991. 6. Heptinstall S, et ah: Parthenolide content and bioactivity of feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Schultz-Bip.). Estimation of commercial and authenticated feverfew products. / Pharmaceut Pharmacol 44, 391-395,1992. 7. Awang DVC: Commercial taheebo lacks active ingredient. Can Pharmacol J121, 323-326,1988. 8." - Michael T. Murray, N.D., The Healing Power of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"USDA researchers tested the effects of forty-nine different herbs, spices, and medicinal plants on blood sugar metabolism and published their results in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2001. Cinnamon was the star of the show." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Duke JA and Avensu ES: medicinal plants of China. Reference Publications, Algonac, MI, 1985, pp. 74-77. 5. Opdyke DLJ: Angelica root oil. Food Cosmet Toxicol 13(Suppl.), 713-714,1975. 6. Grieve M: A Modern Herbal. Dover Publications, New York, 1971. pp. 35-40. 7. Lust J: The Herb Book. Bantam Books, New York, 1974. pp. 97-99. 8. Yoshiro K: The physiological actions of tang-kuei and cnidium. Bull Orient Healing Arts Inst USA 10, 269-278,1985. 9. Harada M, Suzuki M, and Ozaki Y: Effect of Japanese angelica root and peony root on uterine contraction in the rabbit in situ." - Michael T. Murray, N.D., The Healing Power of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.) "Determination of germanium in medicinal plants by atomic absorption spectrometry with electrothermal atomization. Chem Pharm Bull 28, 2687-2691,1980. 6. Brekhman II and Dardymov IV: New substances of plant origin which increase nonspecific resistance. Annu Rev Pharmacol 9, 419-430,1969. 7. Brekhman II and Dardymov IV: Pharmacological investigation of glycosides from ginseng and Eleutherococcus. Uoydia 32, 46-51,1969. 8. Petkov W: Pharmacological studies of the drug P. ginseng C.A. Meyer. Arzniemittel-Forsch 9, 305-311,1959. 9. Petkov W: The mechanism of action of P. ginseng." - Michael T. Murray, N.D., The Healing Power of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

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