Medical plants
Since the beginning of time, the humankind has used plants to cure all sorts of diseases, both physiological and psychological. With the entry of modern medicine the herbal remedies became unpopular but today herbal medicine is becoming more and more popular all over the world. The herbs are not onl...
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| description | Since the beginning of time, the humankind has used plants to cure all sorts of diseases, both physiological and psychological. With the entry of modern medicine the herbal remedies became unpopular but today herbal medicine is becoming more and more popular all over the world. The herbs are not only used in homeopathy but also in more conventional school medicine but here the different constituens are extracted from the plants, e.g. Taxus baccata and T. brevifolia from which taxol and baccatin III are extracted and used as cancer treatment.
The aim of the project was to see if the medical use of three medicinal plants has changed with the development of new technology and scientific progress. Each plant was given a short morphological presentation and thereafter the medical use before, today and in the future was presented. In this report some of the other ways to use the different plants are also mentioned as well as some of the countries in the world where the plants can be found in commercial cultivation.
The plants chosen are Digitalis for its use as a heart medicine, Echinacea for the very common use in both treating and preventing upper respiratory infections and at last Hypericum that is used both in conventional medicine and in homeopathy as a treatment for psychological disorders.
The three medical plants that I chose to write about have more or less the same area of usage today as they had from the beginning. For more serious infections and other medical conditions that are difficult to treat these plants earlier where considered as miracle cures they are no longer or to a very small extent used. This is probably due to the fact that with scientific progress and the modern medicine new and more effective cures where found. In some cases the answer is that the disease or the medical condition is more or less eradicated in the western part of the world e.g. child-bed fever and syphilis infections of second to third degree. |
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| spelling | RepoSLU128782018-10-09T10:51:42Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/12878/ Medical plants Jansson, Emelie Human medicine, health, and safety Since the beginning of time, the humankind has used plants to cure all sorts of diseases, both physiological and psychological. With the entry of modern medicine the herbal remedies became unpopular but today herbal medicine is becoming more and more popular all over the world. The herbs are not only used in homeopathy but also in more conventional school medicine but here the different constituens are extracted from the plants, e.g. Taxus baccata and T. brevifolia from which taxol and baccatin III are extracted and used as cancer treatment. The aim of the project was to see if the medical use of three medicinal plants has changed with the development of new technology and scientific progress. Each plant was given a short morphological presentation and thereafter the medical use before, today and in the future was presented. In this report some of the other ways to use the different plants are also mentioned as well as some of the countries in the world where the plants can be found in commercial cultivation. The plants chosen are Digitalis for its use as a heart medicine, Echinacea for the very common use in both treating and preventing upper respiratory infections and at last Hypericum that is used both in conventional medicine and in homeopathy as a treatment for psychological disorders. The three medical plants that I chose to write about have more or less the same area of usage today as they had from the beginning. For more serious infections and other medical conditions that are difficult to treat these plants earlier where considered as miracle cures they are no longer or to a very small extent used. This is probably due to the fact that with scientific progress and the modern medicine new and more effective cures where found. In some cases the answer is that the disease or the medical condition is more or less eradicated in the western part of the world e.g. child-bed fever and syphilis infections of second to third degree. Växter har under alla tider använts för att lindra och förhindra olika sjukdomstillstånd. När den moderna läkarvetenskapen gjorde sitt intåg så blev huskurer baserade på örter omoderna men idag så ökar intresset och användningen av örtmediciner över hela världen. Örterna används inte enbart inom homeopatin utan även i den moderna läkarvetenskapen men här så utvinns de olika ämnena från växten. Exempel på detta är Taxus baccata och T. brevifolia från vilka taxol och baccatin III utvinns för användning inom cancerbehandling. Syftet med det här arbetet var att undersöka om användningsområdet för tre vanliga medicinalväxter har ändrats i takt med vetenskapliga framsteg och nya metoder. Varje växt fick en kortare morfologisk beskrivning följd av en presentation av den dåtida, nutida och framtida användningen av växten. Även några av de andra användningsområdena än medicin har blivit presenterade i den här rapporten och även en förteckning över de länder där dessa växter finns i kommersiell produktion. De tre växter som undersökts är Digitalis för dess användning inom hjärtmedicin, Echinacea för dess väldigt vanliga användningsområden för att förebygga och förkorta övre luftvägsinfektioner och Hypericum för användning både inom den konventionella läkarvetenskapen och inom homeopatin för behandling av psykiska problem. De tre medicinalväxter som jag valde att skriva om har mer eller mindre samma användningsområde idag som de hade då de började användas. För mer allvarliga infektioner och sjukdomstillstånd där dessa växter tidigare ansågs som mirakelbotemedel används de nuförtiden mycket sällan eller aldrig. Detta beror troligtvis på att i takt med vetenskapliga framsteg och den moderna medicinen så har mer effektiva botemedel upptäckts. I några fall så har sjukdomen eller sjukdomstillståndet mer eller mindre utrotats i I-länderna. Exempel på detta är barnsängsfeber och syfilisinfektioner av andra eller tredje graden. 2007-01-26 Other NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/12878/1/jansson_e_171121.pdf Jansson, Emelie, 2007. Medical plants : change of use with time. UNSPECIFIED, Alnarp. Alnarp: (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Crop Science <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/ANSTI=3A655.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-8995 eng |
| spellingShingle | Human medicine, health, and safety Jansson, Emelie Medical plants |
| title | Medical plants |
| title_full | Medical plants |
| title_fullStr | Medical plants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical plants |
| title_short | Medical plants |
| title_sort | medical plants |
| topic | Human medicine, health, and safety |
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