uses and actions of the official inorganic materia medica; brief but clear statements about such accessory methods of treatment as clothing, baths, bleeding, and such like, and, in addition, a consideration of many general topics, such as prescribing, the alterations in the last edition of the British Pharmacopoeia, and other matters. Part II. is devoted to the consideration of drugs of vegetab...

State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Guo Shou Jing Road, Shanghai 201303, China *Corr...

In this volume only the organic portion of the study of Materia Medica is considered. The book is written with the object of popularising the Laboratory method in the study of Materia Medica. The authors point out in the preface the great superiority of the objective over the didactic method in the study of any subject not only as a matter of training but as making the material more interesting...

Jaundice is recognized by increased bilirubin level of blood and yellow appearance in skin, sclera and mucous membrane. Natural products have been used for treatment of jaundice for a long time and Persian Medicine can be a good source of natural drugs for this purpose. This study was done to find the materia medica used for jaundice based on Persian medicine (PM) texts including The Canon of M...

AIM OF THE STUDY Written records of oral medical traditions have had significant impact on the development of medicine and the pharmacopoeias. Modern ethnobotanical studies in Europe and the Mediterranean region, however, have so far largely overlooked the richness and accuracy of historic sources and ignored their probable influence on the development of today's local traditional medicines. He...