Exploring plants as medicine: an in vitro approach

Title: Exploring plants as medicine: an in vitro approach
Creator: Van de Venter, Maryna
Subject: Medicinal plants
Subject: Oncology
Subject: f-sa
Type: text
Type: Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/55562
Identifier: vital:52968
Description: Introduction: Plants as medicine Archaeological evidence for the use of plants as medicine dates as far back as 60,000 years ago from the area now known as Iraq, and 8,000 years ago from China. The first written records are from the Sumerians from 5,000 BC and the Ancient Egyptians from 1,500 BC. Two well-known plants that were already used in that time are the opium poppy, and cannabis. The first pharmaceutical medicine was only developed in 1804 when the German Friedrich Sertürner isolated morphine from the opium poppy (Pan et al 2014).
Format: 17 pages
Publisher: Nelson Mandela University
Publisher: Faculty of Science
Language: English
Relation: Inaugural ectures
Rights: Nelson Mandela University

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