Modern Medicines from Plants

Name: Modern Medicines from Plants
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032536170
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Botanical histories of some of modern medicine’s most important drugs

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Modern Medicines from Plants explores the fascinating origins of many modern prescription drugs derived from botanical sources. This beautifully illustrated, full-colour book traces the historical use of medicinal plants over two millennia, from ancient herbal remedies to today's scientific pharmaceuticals. It covers 50 plants, primarily from the Royal College of Physicians' medicinal garden, describing their natural habitats, traditional uses, and the diseases their medicines treat. Written by physicians and gardeners, it combines botanical history and modern research, revealing the science behind how these plant-based medicines work.
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This book is ideal for physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, historians, gardeners, and anyone with an interest in the history and science of herbal and prescription medicines.

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The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicine’s most important drugs features information on plants from which we obtain modern prescription medicines. It outlines their historical uses as herbal medicines in the past two millennia, using primary sources, and describes how extracts from them, and their semisynthetic and synthetic derivatives, were developed to be today’s therapeutic drugs and diagnostic chemicals. This book describes medicinal plants and their habitats, the diseases that their medicines treat, and the science of how they work.

This amazing and unique book is a wonderful read for those with an interest in both herbal and prescription medicines. Written with authority by physicians and gardeners at the Garden of Medicinal Plants at the Royal College of Physicians, London, chapters detail the history and modern scientific research on plants and their medicines. It is very useful to physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, historians and gardeners, bringing together information from every discipline to make it a work of interest as well as reference.

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Written for people interested in medicinal plants, where medicines come from, and how they treat our diseases.
Contains information on 50 plants, mostly growing in the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians in London, describing how they became the source of modern pharmaceutical medicines.
Describes medicinal uses of plants in Classical Greece as written by Dioscorides, Pliny and Galen, through the flowering of Arabic medicine by physicians such as Paulus Aegineta, Mesue and Avicenna to the 12th to 14th century compilations of Serapion and Sylvaticus and the European Renaissance of Peter Treveris, William Turner, Leonard Fuchs, Pietro Mattioli, John Gerarde, John Parkinson, Nicholas Culpeper, and many others to the pharmacopoeias of the 16th century to the present day.
Fully referenced including a glossary for explanation of technical terms.

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"Modern medicine from plants" is a very accessible addition to any collection of books on nature and how we might benefit from its gentle management and sensitive interaction, especially when we need help "on the fly" or in the field. – G. Carlo Laurenzi OBE, former CEO of the Wildlife Trust and a renowned forager and bushcrafter.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032536170

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 171 Halftones, color; 171 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Henry Oakeley

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 920g

Pages: 394

Collections

Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Henry Oakeley is a retired consultant psychiatrist who has been interested in plants since the age of eight and an international authority on a group of South American orchids, on which he has written the definitive monograph and held the UK National Collections. Sometime adviser to the Chelsea Physic Garden, Honorary Research Associate at Kew and Singapore Botanic Gardens; chairman of the RHS Orchid Committee, RHS Council Member and currently RHS Vice President. He has lectured on orchids and exhibited them around the world; written over 250 articles on orchids and written (or co-authored) ten books relating to plants and their uses, and others on the English Civil War, the Anglo Boer war, and medical biographies. Since 2005 he has been Garden Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, London where he lectures on the plants in the Medicinal Garden. His orchid herbarium and drawings have been deposited at Kew, and his medicinal plant and orchid photographic archives at Kew and elsewhere. His current interest is in documenting the change of use of medicinal plants over the past two millennia.

Anthony Dayan was Professor of Toxicology in the University of London at Queen Mary University, London. He has been involved with the development and regulation of drugs and the safety of consumer products for more than 40 years in universities, official agencies in many countries and in the pharmaceutical industry. He has been Chairman of the British Toxicology Society and in 2014 the American College of Toxicology elected him Distinguished Scientist of the Year. He has been a Garden Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 2014, a co-author of A Garden of Medicinal Plants [50 plants in the College Garden from the history of Medicine]. He catalogued the Pharmaceutical Society Herbarium at the College with Professor Michael de Swiet. He has a particular interest in the historical aspects of the dual use of certain plants as foods and medicines. He has lectured to many University of the Third Age (U3A) groups and other organisations on toxic risks and on plants and medicines.