Monday, September 27, 2010

Can you account 3 medicine w/c are derived(comes) from cultural(alternate or complementary)medicines?

Curare: Used for poison darts. Penicillin: "Green" mold. Digitalis: Purple Fox Glove plant. Aspirin: By-product of coal tarmacadam. Salicin (from the bark of willow trees) is a precurser of aspirin, prearranged to reduce restlessness and pain for centuries. Atropine: From belladonna plant, used for centuries by women to dilate their eyes. (Bella Donna = Beautiful Woman).
How almost Artemisinine, digitalis, and tincture of belladona (atropine)?
I can only have a sneaking suspicion that of two: Aspirin and Digoxin.

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