Who can  advise and workwith me in screening the chemical content of traditionally used medicinal plants?
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depends where u are, what you know and what you want i suppose. You could try Sandy Gray at Strathclyde Uni.
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Try chemdex.\n\nhttp://www.chemdex.org/
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could be a lot of things. there are some herbs that can help. contact me and i will give you a list of them. my information is free.
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Hmmm.....It shouldn't be hard! Sense India believes strongly in using natural remedies. I would ask around. They have to have! All those countries over there do!
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Try a pharmaceutical chemist. They may be able to obtain a small quantity for you.
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I am in pharmacy school. If you want to have notes on what chemicals are involved in making medicines in the traditional sense, you can find texts on chinese medicine in a library (there is some thinking involved as the chinese names for herbs and plants are different than the latin ones, and also the chinese use a different system of medicine than the west). If you want to know about chemical synthesis, look into the field of organic chemistry, which is difficult to understand or explain, hence the need for an advanced degree to do much lab work. But those are two places where you can look for your answers. Its rather difficult to obtain potassium permagnate and such because many of these chemicals can also be used for rapid oxidation reactions (ie, explosions). It is easy enough though, to order some essential oils and misscelanious herbs after reading a bit on chinese medicine and using that to treat maladies.
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Phytochemistry is in the strict sense of the word the study of phytochemicals. These are chemicals derived from plants. In a narrower sense the terms are often used to describe the large number of secondary metabolic compounds found in plants. Many of these are known to provide protection against insect attacks and plant diseases. They also exhibit a number of protective functions for human consumers.
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You could check with health food stores in your area.  They often hire homeopaths as consultants and/or should be able to help you network.
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The occasional misidentification of herbs can result in improper use and potential safety issues. As part of its educational mission to promote responsible use of medicinal plants, the American Botanical Council (ABC) announced in its newest publication, a crucial quality control manual for herb and dietary supplement companies. The Identification of Medicinal Plants: A Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce focuses on the straightforward visual, macroscopic (examination under hand lens or dissecting microscope) identification of more than 150 species of botanicals used in commercial herbal products in North America.\nIn India we are lacking such technical supports and forced to believe that all herbal products approved by the Drugs Controller General of India are of good qualities even if the truth is a bit bitter!!\nNot only herbal products but other medicinal preparations are also having same limitations.The fact is that we all are living under a threat!!
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try the local chemist....
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That's a really good subject that has a lot of research being done.  Natural remedies are a wave of the present.  There are tons of websites available, just search Google or Yahoo with "Medicinal Herbs".
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I don't think that is so high the rate (80%).The last survey that I found, was refering a smaller amount.\nThere is always the question, what we define as natural medicine ; if a medicine is natural or not after chemical processing.\nIf I understand well, you want to know the procedure of making medicines from plants. \nWell, there are various ways : \nThe most simple and easy way is to get the essential oil.\nIf you want to experiment which is the part of the plant that contains the active substance, isolate this substance and administer to patients in various dosage forms,in order to formulate a new medicine,then things are more complicated.\n\nIf you mean where to find the natural treatments,that is issues of alternative medicine, well just enter the site \nof a University, ie. Yale University or Alabama University and you can find trustworthy information.\n\nIf you want to give us here,more information in the same message, click on: Add details, that you will find on the top right of the page. It will be published in the same message that you have written and we can answer to you.\n\nKaterina
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You can work on fruit juices and other beverages like colas etc..carry out small analysis to find out how many of them contain glucose/sucrose ie aldoses and ketoses..u can also determine if they contain carboxylic acids,ascorbic acid etc.u can do benedicts/fehling test and lucas test on the different juices.can determine if any kind of OH group is present in those drinks..wt vitamins,wt minerals present.\nA similar kind of study can be done on toothpastes..take different brands of toothpastes,carry out tests on them as which ones contain Flouride,bleach,whitening powders and whiche all contains sugar.
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I would find out what ingredients are involved before I would go through with the process! I would think that it would be fine, but you never know!
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You may think of Plants as biochemical Laboratories. All plants create chemical molecules, as the result of their primary or secondary metabolic procedures. These chemical molecules can be quite simple or have very complex structure. \nThe biological properties of these molecules was and still is a major part of scientific investigation. So one can not say that there is a specific group of plants from which we can expect medicinal products to be researched and developed. \nHowever there is a group of plants, which we call medicinal & aromatic plants because many of the species in this group has already been utilised for their biological active chemical products. \nThis group compromises mainly from species belonging to specific plant families (e.g. Lamiaceae). \nPharmaceutical companies and botanists nowadays search for new chemical molecules and test their biological properties. Drugs that are beeing produced based on a plant molecule are basically no different from any other drug available. So keep in mind that nature was always the first medicine provider and still is.
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U could try Ginkgo.\n\nAsk @ your Health Food shop 4 dosage.
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This is an interesting question.  I believe that nearly all patients, when they arrive in a herbologist's practice, already have their diagnosis in hand from a medical doctor.  They often arrive with their blood work, X-rays, MRIs and other tests.  They know what is going on, and they've sought out the herbologist or nutrition therapist for that extra dimension of knowledge and specialized expertise that will help the healing process.\n\nFurthermore, every herbologist I know is well-trained in adjunct therapies such as nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and others.  They've all studied biochemistry, anatomy, physiology.  They're offering complimentary herbal therapies beyond what the busy MD, who hasn't time to study these, can provide.\n\nIt's nonsense to say that herbal remedies haven't changed in hundreds of years.  In its broadest sense, the field of nutrition therapy, which includes herbology since herbs are plants, many foods are plants and the same phytochemicals exist in both, is expanding dramatically at present.  In almost every medical school today, researchers are studying phytochemicals and nutraceuticals for their capacity to stabilize and even "help reverse certain disease states," as your correspondent Veg Ryan has written.  It is said that what we are seeing right now is another era of astonishing discoveries, comparable to the great decades of vitamin discovery from the 1920s through the 1960s and 70s.\n\nConsider the omega-3 essential fatty acids.  These are being studied for their help with inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, macular degeneration, cataracts, Alzheimer's, diabetes, obesity.  In the herbologist's corner, we find these omega-3s in the plant purslane, regarded as a weed - but a few purslane recipes have recently cropped up in recipes in edgy magazines and leading newspapers.\n\nConsider cardiovascular disease.  In its early stages one can observe a good synergy between doctors today and nutrition therapists, because the best approach is lifestyle change through diet and exercise.   Many doctors will send the cardio patient first to a nutrition therapist before loading on the powerful meds with their side effects.  The herbologist has knowledge of specific plants - hawthorn, horsetail, garlic, lemon balm, flax seed oil - that can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, so she or he serves as a member of the team that will assist the patient in re-formatting his lifestyle.\n\nWith respect to your candida example, surely it would be hopelessly counter-productive to believe the patient has this, to recommend herbs and protocols, yet never to tell the patient what you're treating them for?  This is perhaps a difficult example, because candida overgrowth, to best of my knowledge, is a condition not yet agreed-upon by western MDs, there are some who argue the idea is a fiction.\n\nI have great respect for the MDs who will offer a suggestion that's outside the realm of western medicine.  Usually they precede this by saying "some patients have told me that such-and-such can help."  There's nothing in such a remark that compromises their professional training, they are simply passing on anecdotal information.  Surely, in a herbologist's practice the same approach can be used.