Medical plants

Moore, Michael, Medical Plants of the Pacific West, Red Crane Books, Santa Fe, 1993. 

Balunas M.J. Kinghom A.D. Drug discovery from medical plants. Life Science, 2005,78,431-441. 

Hikino, H. Kiso, Y. In Economic and Medical Plant Researdi Academic Press London 1988 Vol. 2, pp. 30-71. 

Research Institute for Medical Plants, H-2011 Budakalasz, PO Box 11, Hungary Remcho, Vincent T. 

Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu, B.D. (1984) Indian Medical Plants. Volume 3. Goyal Offset Printers, New Delhi, pp. 2143-2155. 

Chiu NY, Chang KH (1992) Alpine Medical Plants of Taiwan, Vol. 3, p. 123. Southern Materials Center, Taipei... 

Agrawal, P. K. Bishnoi, V. Studies on Indian medical plants. 42. Sterol and taraxastane derivatives from Artemisia annua and a rational approach based upon C-13 NMR for the identification of skeletal type of amorphane sesquiterpenoids. Indian J. Chem., 1996, 35B 86-88. 

In particular, the European blueberry (V. myrtillus L.), (in North America and in this text called bilberry) is known as an ancient medical plant (Ulltveit, 1998). 

Bara, M.T.F. and Vanetti, M.C.D. 1995. Antimicrobial effect of spices on the growth of Yersinia enterocolitica. J. Herbs, Spices Medic. Plants. 3 51-58. 

Peyote used to be relatively common across Southern Texas, but, over the past decade, collectors, dopers, Indians, and narcs have nearly exterminated the plant on both sides of the border. Peyote, like many forms of rare cactus, is painfully slow growing. A mature, baseball sized plant can be thirty years old... I am convinced that if this mythical and potentially valuable medical plant is to survive, it will be with the help of conservationists. ... 

The extraction of amino acids (Fig. 6,8) from medical plant extracts is again the use of cation exchange to remove organic bases (amino acids) from extracts of plants. Homogenize and blend the plant material with methanol. Filter the extract and evaporate to dryness. Reconstitute the sample with 10% methanol/water and filter. The extract is prepared for cation exchange. 

Acids from Medical Plant Extracts. Published with the permission of J. T. Baker, Inc. (see Suggested Reading, Chapter 1). 

It may be added that although the poisonous element may be more concentrated in a particular plant part, it may to a degree also occur throughout the entire plant. Furthermore, as has been previously noted, the concentration or activity may vary with geographical location, the season, and even the time of day. Another interesting fact is that all the species of some plant families tend to be intrinsically toxic. For example, species manbers of the family Papaveraceae all contain alkaloids of one kind or another. The snbject is chemical taxonomy, implied in the title of Peter Tetenyi s (1970) Infraspecific Chemical Tarn of Medical Plants, translated from the Russian. 

Dianthins, cytotoxic cyclic peptides isolated from the methanol extract of the traditional Chinese medical plant Dianthus superbus. Beside dianthin C, cyclo-(-Gly-Pro-Phe-Tyr-Val-Ile ), the dianthins D-F with similar... 

KUTCHAN, T.M., Alkaloid biosynthesis-The basis for metabolic engineering of medical plants. Plant Cell, 1995, 7, 1059-1070. 

Sudha CG, Sherina TV, Anand VPA, Reji JV, Padmesh P, Soniya EV. Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated transformation of the medical plant Decalepsis arayalpa-thron and production of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenaldehyde. Plant Cell Tiss Org... 

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