Plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. One of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. Documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancie...

*Center for Drug Discovery and Design, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zuchongzhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China; School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; ‡Department of Bi...

*: Corresponding authors. 12 Please address correspondence and requests for reprints to: 13 Professor Weiliang Zhu. 14 Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences 15 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai 201203 16 Phone: +86-21-50805020 17 Fax: +86-21-50805020 18 Email: [email protected] 19 Dr Zhili Zuo 20 School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapo...

Wei-Liang Zhu,†,‡ Xiao-Jian Tan,‡ Chum Mok Puah,*,† Jian-De Gu,‡ Hua-Liang Jiang,*,‡,§ Kai-Xian Chen,‡ Clifford E. Felder,§ Israel Silman,| and Joel L Sussman*,§ Chemical Process and Biotechnology Department, Singapore Polytechnic, 500 DoVer Road, Singapore 139651, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese A...

The most important reference work for pharmacology in the Islamic Era is Materia Medica by Dioscorides, the Greek scientist. It’s also named fi-hayuli-al-Tibb in the Islamic era. There are several different translation of this book in Arabic and Persian. In this article I’m going to introduce a manuscript of one the Arabic translation of this book which hasn’t been mentioned in any bibliographi...