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The natural history of medicinal plants / Judith Sumner ; foreword by Mark J. Plotkin.
Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Today it is synthesized in the laboratory, and its use as an anticoagulant eventually could overshadow its use as an analgesic. Other botanical medicines that became significant to human health and well-being are pain-relievers from opium and coca, muscle relaxants from curare, blood anticoagulants from sweet clover, anticancer alkaloids from Madagascar periwinkle and Pacific yew, tranquilizers from snakeroot, and oral contraceptives from molecular precursors in tropical yams.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780881929577 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0881929573 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2008, c2000.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index. |
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| Subject: | Botany, Medical. Medicinal plants. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QK 99 .A1 S86 2008 | 30775305444912 | General Collection | Available | - |