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Many
pharmaceutical drugs used in western medicine are made
from plants or the properties of plants have inspired their
development
(Sheldon
et al., 1997)[1]
Today there are at least 120
distinct chemical substances derived from plants that are considered as
important drugs currently in use in one or more countries in the world.
These chemical substances are shown in the table at:
http://www.rain-tree.com/plantdrugs.htm.
Several of the drugs
sold today are simple synthetic modifications or copies of the
naturally obtained substances.
Some of the drug/chemicals shown in this list are still sold as plant
based drugs requiring the processing of the actual plant material.
Others have been chemically copied or synthesized by laboratories and
no plant materials are used in the manufacture of the drug. A good
example of this is the plant chemical quinine, which was discovered in
a rainforest tree (Cinchona ledgeriana) over 100 years ago. For many
years the quinine chemical was extracted from the bark of this tree and
processed into tincture[2] and pills to treat malaria. Then a scientist
was able to synthesize or copy this plant alkaloid into a chemical drug
without using the original tree bark for manufacturing the drug. Today,
all quinine drugs sold are manufactured chemically without the use of
any tree bark. However, another chemical in the tree called quinidine
which was found to be useful for various heart conditions couldn't be
completely copied in the laboratory and the tree bark is still
harvested and used to extract this plant chemical from it. Quinidine
extracted from the bark is still used today to produce quinidine-based
drugs. In the U.S. there are four patented brand-name heart drugs sold
in pharmacies containing bark-extracted quinidine: Cardioquin™,
Quinaglute Dura-tabs™, Quinidex Extentabs™ and Quin-Release™.
This article demonstrates that plants have value as medicine and in a
time when medicine is so expensive we can
take advantage of inexpensive effective natural medicine by using
tinctures that we can make from plants.
This is an excerpt from an article published by Leslie Taylor, ND.
Supporting references are included by Patrick Edgmon.
1.
http://www.plantlife.org.uk/international/plantlife-med-plants-what-are-med-plants-
pharm.htm
2. King's American Dispensatory, Tinctura Cinchonae (U. S. P.)—Tincture
of Cinchona. 1898
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