Drugs plants

Evodiamine, the alkaloid from the Chinese drug plant Evodia rutaecarpa Benth. and Hook., has also been called rhetsine and its oxidation product rhetsinine, which is also found in nature, was shown to be the diamide (53). Recently a hypotensive red alkaloid isolated from the Brazilian plant Hortia arborea Engl, was given the name hortiamine. Degradation and synthetic studies have shown it to possess the structure (55). It was found together with another... 

Grant WM. 1986. Toxicology of the eye. In Encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, plants, toxins, and venoms. Springfield, IL Charles C. Thomas, 495-497. 

Table 5 Characteristics of Alkaline Waste Stream of a Synthetic Drug Plant at Hyderabad [13,15]...

The five-days BOD at 20°C and flow of the various types of waste streams generated from a synthetic drug plant are given in the following table. 

Lawson, J.R. Woldman, M.L. Eggerman, P.P. Squibb solves its pharmaceutical wastewater problems in Puerto Rico. Chem. Engng. Progress Symposium Series No. 107, 1971, Water-1970 , 1970,401 -404. Murthy, Y.S. Subbiah, V. Rao, D.S. Reddy, R.C. Kumar, L.S. Elyas, S.I. Rama Rao, K.G. Gadgill, J.S. Deshmukh, S.B. Treatment and disposal of wastewater from synthetic drugs plant (I.D.P.L.), Hyderabad, Part I - Wastewater characteristics. Indian J. Environ. Health 1984, 26 (1), 7-19. 

Deshmukh, S.B. Subrahmanyanm, P.V.R. Mohanrao, G.J. Studies on the treatment of wastes from a synthetic drug plant. Indian. J. Environ. Health 1973, 15, 2. 

Uses. Manufacture of couplers for color photography intermediate in manufacture of perfumes, antioxidants, drugs, plant growth regulators, defoliants, and herbicides... 

Mahran, G. H., H. A. Kadry, Z. G. Isaac, C. K. Thabet, M. M. Al-Aziziz, and M. M. El-Olemy. Investigation of diuretic drug plants. 1. Phytochemical screening and pharmacological evalu-... 

Khanna K, Chandra S. 1977. Control of guava fruit rot caused by Pestaolotia psidii with homeopathic drugs. Plant Dis Rep 61 362. 

Chemical storehouse in drug plant of the Meguro Medical Supplies Depot... 

Most psychoactive drugs come from plants, and there are hundreds of plants with psychoactive properties. People have put most of them to use in one part of the world or another at one time or another. Often drug plants taste bad, are weak, or have unwanted side effects. Traditional peoples who use these plants, such as Native Americans, have come up with clever ways of preparing and ingesting them to maximize the desired effects or make them easier to take. Traditional peoples do not tamper with the chemical composition of the plants, however. For example, South American Indians have found that drying coca leaves and mixing them with ashes or other alkalis increases their stimulant effect. They have also learned to make a powerful snuff from the resin of the virola tree (a DMT-containing plant) in order to take... 

The relationships people form with plants are different from those they form with white powders. Crude natural drugs tend to he less toxic, and users tend to stay in better relationships with them over time. One reason for this difference is that plants are dilute preparations, since the active principles are combined not only with other drugs but also with inert vegetable matter. Drugs plants commonly contain less than 5 percent of an active princi-pic. (Coca rarely has more than 0.5 percent cocaine. By contrast, refined preparations may approach 100 percent purity. 

Finally, the many other compounds in drug plants — often a single plant will contain twenty or more active components may modify the active principles, making them safer or softening their harsher actions on the body. These safety factors and modi-... 

Morphine was the first active principle ever extracted from a drug plant. Its isolation from opium in 1803 marked the beginning of the modern era ol drug treatment. (leremy higwood)... 

Active principie The main chemical constituent of a drug plant. Cocaine, for example, is the active principle of coca leaf. Although active principles may be responsible for many of the effects of drug plants, they do not exactly reproduce those effects and in pure form have higher toxicity and potential for abuse. 

After definite identification of a supposed drug plant, it is necessary to determine the active principles known to occur in the drug and to consider the known biological activity of these principles with reference to the alleged curative properties. For such a search... 

Chemical Analysis Physico-Chemical Analysis Pharmaceutical Chemistry Vitamin Drugs Plant Materials Mass Spectroscopy Medical Devices Pharmacology... 

Stockburger, W.W. Drug Plants Under Cultivation-, USDA Farmer s Bulletin No. 663 1935... 

Moerman, D.E. (1996). An analysis of the food plants and drug plants of native North America, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 52 1-22. 

GMP compliance certificates for Japanese drug plant have been issued since 1982 today bilateral agreements have been signed with the United States and EU since May 2003, with regard to GMP compliance recognition. 

Efuntoye, M. 1996-97. Fungi associated with herbal drug plants during storage. Mycopathologia 136, 115-118. 

Schultes, R.E. Lecture 1, Jungle Search for New Drug Plants in the Amazon Lecture 2, Native Narcotics of the New World Lecture 3, Botany Attacks the Hallucinogens., University of Texas, Third Lecture Series, Pharm. Sci. Part 5, pp. 138-185... 

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