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Autofluorescence as a Parameter to Study Pharmaceutical Materials
Published in Victoria Vladimirovna Roshchina, Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations, 2020
Victoria Vladimirovna Roshchina
Most of the monoterpenes, especially nerol, linalool, and geraniol, are concentrated in flower essential oils (more than 20%), whereas geranial and geranyl acetate are concentrated in pollen (Roshchina V.V. and Roshchina V.D. 1993). Some of them, for instance linalool and geraniol, are attractants for insects. Monoterpenes occur in essential oils of many secretions from all parts of species belonging to the Asteraceae. Cymol is a component of the essential oils of the blossoms of Achillea millefolium (Harborne 1993) and Artemisia ludovicjana, up to 33–50% of total essential oil (Elakovich 1988). Camphor is also a major component of the essential oil of Artemisia maritima (Murav’eva et al. 2007).
The Decadence of Medical Science
Published in Arturo Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2019
The description of pleurisy and its treatment is clearly that of a master. In the domain of diseases of the stomach and the intestine also we find in Alexander a profound and exact observer. In one of his letters we find the names of various intestinal parasites with accurate differentiation of oxyuris, ascaris, and tænia, for which he prescribes the seeds of pomegranate, fern, and castor oil. For ascaris he especially prescribes a decoction of artemisia maritima, seeds of coryander, timianus. For oxyuris he prescribes enemas of ethereal oils.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Artemisia maritima A plant known to the ancient Greeks and Romans for its medicinal values. Dioscorides mentioned the seeds of the plant which he found growing in Cappodocia as treatment for Ascarides and Lumbrici around AD 60. Alexander of Tralles (525–605) advocated its use against intestinal worms. Kahler, an apothecary at Dusseldorf, extracted the active ingredient in 1830. Augustus Alms, a druggist’s assistant at Penzilin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, independently extracted the same substance and named it santonin, which was widely used as an antihelmintic in the 19th century.
Helminthiases in North Korea: a neglected public health challenge
Published in Pathogens and Global Health, 2019
From 2011 to 2015, North Korea had imported $104 million’s worth of medical supplies from abroad, 91.5% of which were pharmaceutical products [42]. The economic sanctions imposed in 2017 brought about the shortage of pharmaceutical resources, which led to the widespread usage of black-market drugs resulting in serious side effects [43]. In response to the scarcity of medicines, public health authorities encouraged the use of Koryo-yak, traditional herbal medicines, to supplement the insufficient supply of basic drugs. The ingredients were herbs and plants that grow naturally and were easy to harvest throughout the country. For example, they recommended sea wormwood (Artemisia maritima), the fruits of common carpesium (Carpesium abrotanoides), honey, rice straw, pumpkin seeds, or watermelon seeds for ascariasis [44].