CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pedanius Dioscorides, Digoxin, Sepsis
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He drew beats, strawberries, the opium plant and wormwood, which is the basis for a drink called the absinthe: number of plants are named after him: o arum dioscorides, an expectorant helps clear the throat. o saffron: moves urine, a diuretic. Malaria: parasitic disease: 50% targets the children, sixty of the 380 species of the anopheline mosquito transmit the disease, effects brain and body, slows the economical growth of africa by over 1% a year, early cure= quinine a plant, 60% of the bark are alkaloids 70% comes from the bark. british soldiers in india would take quinine from the cinchona tree, artemisia and artemisinin is known to be a recent cure for malaria, ddt is great for prevention of malaria but it is now banned because it interferes with the capacity of birds to lay eggs that survive one egg cycle. insecticides treated nets, that kills mosquitoes that touch the net.
