Ancient medicine

Hatcher H, Planalp R, Cho J, Torti FM, Torti SV. (2008) Curcumin From ancient medicine to current clinical trials. Cell Mol Life Sci 65 1631-1652. 

As mentioned earlier, marine animals are the richest source of various biologically and biomedically important compounds/materials/sub-stances. One such traditional and ancient medicinally important chordate... 

About 800 000 tons of solid catalysts are prepared and used every year worldwide, but this does not mean that we understand how they work. Catalyst synthesis and treatment recipes are often based on empirical studies, handed down the generations like ancient medicines. Since chemists dislike ignorance even more than nature abhors a vacuum, much research is done to find out how solid catalysts work. And, since the real industrial catalysts are usually multicomponent, nonuniform solids, much of this research is done on simplified model systems [28],... 

Moed, L., Shwayder, T.A., and Chang, M.W. Cantharidin revisited a blistering defense of an ancient medicine. Arch Dermatol. 2001 137 1357-60. 

Touwaide A (1992) Studies in the history of medicine concerning toxicology after 1970. Newsletter Society of Ancient Medicine 20 8-33. 

The focus of this paper is to review and identify those psychoactive plant species of sub-Saharan Africa. The biological and cultural diversity of Africa is immense (there are over 2,000 languages represented in sub-Saharan Africa). However, these ancient medicinal systems, usually based on oral traditions, are poorly documented even to this day. In contrast. North Africa and the Middle East have a relatively well documented traditional medicine (12-14). The Babylonians, Assyrians and Sumerians recorded heibal remedies in cuneiform on clay tables as long ago as 4000 BC. Not only can we attribute the origins of civilization to North Africa and the Middle East but also possibly the most important psychoactive plant, Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), from which the first alkaloid and psychoactive chemical was isolated. Morphine was first isolated by the German pharmacist Sertuner in 1803 (15). 

Witkin JM, Li X (2013) Curcumin, an active constiuent of the ancient medicinal herb Curcuma longa L. Some uses and the establishment and biological basis of medical efficacy. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets 12 487- 197... 

There are numerous chemical starting points for drugs. Historically, natural products have been a rich source of molecules. The Ebers Papryus, one of the earliest documents recording ancient medicine, describes 700 drugs, most from plants. Similarly, the Chinese Materia Medica... 

Even though the history of die pressing or tabletting only begins during the past century, there are older forms of agglomerates that can be considered as direct predecessors. The first uses of die pressing were for pharmaceutical applications therefore, the earliest examples of similar products will be found in ancient medicine. 

Loeb Classical Library. 1923. Hippocrates Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment. Volume I in the eight-volume Hippocratic Collection. Cambridge Harvard University Press. 

Huddleston, A. Green tea Nature s rediscovered ancient medicine. Ethnobotanical Leaflets, http //www.siu.edu/ ebl/leaflets/greentea.htm (accessed January 22, 2004). 

Despite these prestigious glories in medicine or pharmacotherapy, pharmacy remained an empiric science until the end of the eighteenth century, guided by ancient medicine, inherited from Hippocrates or Galen. 

M. Hamburger, Isatis tinctoria - From the rediscovery of an ancient medicinal plant towards a novel anti-inflammatory phytopharmaceutical, Phytochem. Rev., 1, 333-344, 2002. 

Goyal, A., Sharma, V., Upadhyay, N., Gill, S., Sihag, M., 2014. Flax and flaxseed oil an ancient medicine modern functional food. J. Food Sci. Tech 1-21. 

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