Can you list 3 medicines w/c are derived(comes) from cultural(alternate or complementary)medicines?
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Curare: Used for poison darts.   Penicillin: "Green" mold. Digitalis: Purple Fox Glove plant.  Aspirin: By-product of coal tar. Salicin (from the bark of willow trees) is a precurser of aspirin, known to reduce fever and pain for centuries. Atropine: From belladonna plant, used for centuries by women to dilate their eyes. (Bella Donna = Beautiful Woman).
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Only the ones the Dr. prescribes.  Good for you!  That takes some work to do!  Congrats.
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From beginnings as remote and simple as these came the proud profession of Pharmacy. Its development parallels that of man. Ancient man learned from instinct, from observation of birds and beasts. Cool water, a leaf, dirt, or mud was his first soothing application. By trial, he learned which served him best. Eventually, he applied his knowledge for the benefit of others. Though the cavemen's methods were crude, many of today's medicines spring from sources as simple and elementary as those which were within reach of early man.\n\nBabylon, jewel of ancient Mesopotamia, often called the cradle of civilization, provides the earliest known record of practice of the art of the apothecary. Practitioners of healing of this era (about 2600 B.C.) were priest, pharmacist and physician, all in one. Medical texts on clay tablets record first the symptoms of illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, then an invocation to the gods. Ancient Babylonian methods find counterpart in today's modern pharmaceutical, medical, and spiritual care of the sick.\n\nChinese Pharmacy, according to legend, stems from Shen Nung (about 2000 B.C.), emperor who sought out and investigated the medicinal value of several hundred herbs. He reputed to have tested many of them on himself, and to have written the first Pen T-Sao, or native herbal, recording 365 drugs. Still worshiped by native Chinese drug guilds as their patron god, Shen Nung conceivably examined many herbs, barks, and roots brought in from the fields, swamps, and woods that are still recognized in Pharmacy today. In the background is the "Pa Kua," a mathematical design symbolizing creation and life. Medicinal plants include podophyllum, rhubarb, ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon bark, and, in the boy's hand, ma huang, or Ephedra.\n\nTheophrastus (about 300 B.C.), among the greatest early Greek philosophers and natural scientists, is called the "father of botany." His observations and writings dealing with the medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs are unusually accurate, even in the light of present knowledge. He lectured to groups of students who walked about with him, learning of nature by observing her treasurers at firsthand. In his hands he holds a branch of belladonna. Behind him are pomegranate blooms, senna, and manuscript scrolls. Slabs of ivory, coated with colored beeswax, served the students as "slates." Writing was cut into the surface with a stylus.\n\nMithridates VI, King of Pontus (about 100 B.C.), though he battled Rome for a lifetime, found time to make not only the art of poisoning, but also the art of preventing and counteracting poisoning, subjects of intensive study. Unhesitatingly, he used himself as well as his prisoners as "guinea pigs" on which to test poisons and antidotes. Behind him are rhizotomists, offering fresh, flowering aconite, ginger, and gentian. At lower right is a crater - a two-piece forerunner of the champagne bucket. His famed formula of alleged panantidotal powers, "Mithridatum," was popular for over a thousand years.\n\nOf the men of ancient times whose names are known and revered among both the professions of Pharmacy and Medicine, Galen, undoubtedly, is the foremost. Galen (130-200 A.D.) practiced and taught both Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome; his principles of preparing and compounding medicines ruled in the Western world for 1,500 years; and his name still is associated with that class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means - galenicals. He was the originator of the formula for a cold cream, essentially similar to that known today. Many procedures Galen originated have their counterparts in today's modern compounding laboratories.\n\nTwinship of the health professions, Pharmacy and Medicine, is nowhere more strikingly portrayed than by Damian, the apothecary, and Cosmas, the physician. Twin brothers of Arabian descent, and devout Christians, they offere
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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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You may want to consider Chinese medicine - natural remedies, therapies.
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Unfortunately, 'Yahoo! Answers' Community Guidelines require that questions and answers be in English. \n\n"USE ENGLISH ONLY: Please do not use other languages or symbols."\n\nIf your question isn't deleted by moderators, the two words you asked about mean "medicine". See http://mongoluls.net/mongolianlanguage/mongoliantutorial2.shtml
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conventional medicine aka western or scientific medicine.  \n\nhave a look at this site to give you some info on western mediine vs eastern medicine.\n\nhttp://gancao.net/ht/comparison.shtml\n\nin a nutshell...western medicine or conventional is based on scientific conclusions from an experiment.  however, eastern medicine believes that an individual is totally different from one another.  apart from symptoms, before they start to cure the person, they need to have the knowledge of the individual's constitution (dosha - in sanskrit).  for example, paracetamol doesn't have the effect it originally intends to have on everyone.  Based on MY experience, paracetamol doesn't work on me... and other medications as well..only until i've learned about alternative medicine or ayurveda, i've realised that  there are still a lot to learn to properly, efficiently cure an individual.  I've not taken any medications for nearly a year now and I'm absolutely fine!  Sometimes, alternative medicine gives ourselves to get in touch with our body to tell us if there is something wrong.  if we keep depending on doctors, we detach from our body and sometimes it becomes the cause of our own sickness.  havea search on alternative medicine or ayurveda... perhaps you could better understand the difference.
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thyme, rosemary, "spinks" or wild garlic come to mind
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Black Cohosh\nDHEA and Pregnenolone\nVitex (Chasteberry)\nHops\nRehmania\nSoy isoflavones\nMotherwort\nVitamin C and E\nCalcium-magnesium-zinc pills
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Yes you can, you can find information about medications and whether you can mix certain ones on Medline Plus
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Traditional health care  uses treatments that are scrutinized using the scientific method, whereas alternative therapies rarely are.\n\nIf you are prescribed a drug by a doctor, that drug has undergone a lot of testing to show that (1) it works and (2) it isn't too dangerous (although all drugs have side effects)  In addition, pharmaceutical companies are monitored so that you can be sure what is supposed to be in the drug is actually there, and in the amount specified.\n\nHerbal therapies rarely undergo any testing, and the purported benefits are anecdotal.  Ever heard of the placebo effect?  Granted, a lot of herbs DO have medicinal properties, but when used as "supplements", they are not subjected to the same tight standards that pharmaceutical products are.  Studies have shown that some herbal preparations contain less than half of what they are supposed to have, while others had many times the alleged amount.\n\nWith regard to the more bizarre alternative therapies, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that ear candling or cupping isn't going to cure anything.  It might make you "feel better" (again, refer to placebo effect), but there is no science behind it.\n\nScience is why traditional medicine keeps changing.  We are constantly learning new things, and adjusting our practice accordingly.
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vega / vegan / vege out / vegetable / vegetable garden / vegetable hummingbird / vegetable ivory / vegetable marrow / vegetable matter / vegetable oil / vegetable oyster / vegetable patch / vegetable sheep / vegetable silk / vegetable soup / vegetable sponge / vegetable tallow / vegetable wax / vegetal / vegetarian / vegetarianism / vegetate / vegetation / vegetational / vegetative / vegetative cell / vegetive / veggie\n\nthat's all i know
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Try this website   http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs/types.htm\nUses will be different that just being able to identify them\nRemember that some drugs are used for different things.  Such as Antidepressants for pain management.
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*plant derivatives\n*roasted onion on ear\n*blood transfusions (from lambs)\n\nGo to these websites for more information :)\nhttp://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Medbelprac.html\nhttp://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanmedicine.html\n\nAlso try going to google or wikipedia and typing in "medical procedures during sixteenth century"
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can do the following:\n\n1. Add microbial agents to antimicrobial agents\n\n2. Add Macrobial Agents\n\n3. Add Antimicro-unial agents
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Use this site:\nhttp://www.ajc.com/health/altmed/shared/health/alt_medicine/ConsDrugs/OpiumTincturecd.html
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Most medicines involved leeching, superstitions and old plant medicines. They were mainly based on tales and stories or myths from knowledge known. In the Elizabethan age, there were a few more medicines known but most of them were plants grounded into powders and tooken with wines.