Tarchonanthus camphoratus is a bush or small tree belonging to the family of the Asteracee, which rarely reaches six metres in height. Greyish in appearance which gives it its name in the local dialect, “grey bos” (grey bush), it is found in a wide range of habitats… Scarica PDF
Licensing of medicines in the EU is carried out according to the requirements of Directive 2001/83/EC, the Community code on medicinal products for human use. Directive 2004/24/EC (the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive – THMPD) amends this code to introduce the Traditional Herbal Medicines Registration Scheme and to apply many of the existing requirements in […]
Chinese civilization is – we know – of very ancient origin and can lay claim to an ancient therapeutic tradition. Paternity of Chinese medicine is attributed to the Emperor Cen-Nong, who lived in the 27th century BC and taught the Chinese how to use herbs, compiling the first Pen-t ’-sao (“origin of herbs”) , namely […]
…although the drug had been widely used for thousands of years by the Chinese and Marco Polo also reported having seen the trees in the forests of Fokien, it is not known when unrefined camphor, the only real and effective medicine from this plant, was first extracted…. Scarica PDF
In 1677, the Neapolitan doctor Giuseppe Donzelli, Baron of Dogliola, published his “Teatro Farmaceutico Spagirico”, a medical text whichwas very successful throughout the 17th century1… Scarica PDF
The use of medicinal plants among the Nomad people of Central – Eastern Africa… The research was made among the Nile-Hamitic peoples, a linguistic and racial group of Ethiopic origin, principally widespread in that area of Central Eastern Africa going to the Upper Nile to the Victoria lake… Scarica PDF
If it is clear that these peoples have always dealt with the said drugs in the same way, it is also true that the western medicine, owing to its contacts with the Arabian culture during the centuries, became acquainted and started utilizing drugs of crucial importance for the materia medica… Scarica PDF
The study of ethno-medicine has given science drugs such as strophanthin, curare and vincristine and will cer tainly reserve sensational surpr ises for us in the future, however it is undeniable that the pr inciple of the overall concept of medicine as a subject took the form of a science precisely with the development of […]
… the discovery however, initially of little pharmaceutical interest, then opened up the way to the chemical and pharmacological study of that numerous and complex group of substances common as pigments in many higher plants: the so-called flavonoids… Scarica PDF