The value of plants used in traditional medicine for drug discovery.

DS Fabricant, NR Farnsworth - Environmental health …, 2001 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
In this review we describe and discuss several approaches to selecting higher plants as
candidates for drug development with the greatest possibility of success. We emphasize the …

Drug discovery from medicinal plants

MJ Balunas, AD Kinghorn - Life sciences, 2005 - Elsevier
Current research in drug discovery from medicinal plants involves a multifaceted approach
combining botanical, phytochemical, biological, and molecular techniques. Medicinal plant …

Natural products in drug discovery and development

GM Cragg, DJ Newman, KM Snader - Journal of natural products, 1997 - ACS Publications
Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development | Journal of Natural Products ACS ACS
Publications C&EN CAS Find my institution Log In Journal of Natural Products ACS Publications …

Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses

WN Adger, TA Benjaminsen, K Brown… - Development and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been
dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we …

Traditional medicinal plant use in Northern Peru: tracking two thousand years of healing culture

RW Bussmann, D Sharon - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2006 - Springer
This paper examines the traditional use of medicinal plants in Northern Peru, with special
focus on the Departments of Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad, Cajamarca, and San Martin …

Natural product drug discovery in the next millennium

GM Cragg, DJ Newman - Pharmaceutical biology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive
number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, many based on their use …

Antibacterial activity of some selected Indian medicinal flora

R NAIR, T KALARIYA, S Chanda - Turkish Journal of biology, 2005 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
Nine plants were screened for potential antibacterial activity. In evaluating antibacterial
activity both aqueous and organic solvents were used. The plants screened were Sapindus …

Toxicity of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Northern Peru

RW Bussmann, G Malca, A Glenn, D Sharon… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The plant species reported here are
traditionally used in Northern Peru for a wide range of illnesses. Most remedies are …

Strategies for discovering drugs from previously unexplored natural products

A Harvey - Drug discovery today, 2000 - Elsevier
Natural products are the most consistently successful source of drug leads. Despite this,
their use in drug discovery has fallen out of favour. Natural products continue to provide …

Compounds from wild mushrooms with antitumor potential

I CFR Ferreira, J A. Vaz… - Anti-Cancer Agents in …, 2010 - benthamdirect.com
For thousands of years medicine and natural products have been closely linked through the
use of traditional medicines and natural poisons. Mushrooms have an established history of …