BIO_SC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Garlic, Tylenol (Brand), Wart
15 Jan 2015
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Agriculture in only the last 10,000 of the 400,000 years of human history. Domestication: humans using artificial selection to genetically change an organism from its wild type, gradual and need based, continues today. Pre test: true, medicine still relies on plants, false, herbal remedies may be untested for safety, making them potentially dangerous, jane should tell her doctor about everything she is taking, including tylenol, st. Johns wart, and the birth control: false, this is really bad for you. Plants and early medicine: recorded history of use. 1592 written manuscript was a gift from the aztecs to spain. Greeks and roman records: some worked. Willow and poppy for pain (by 400 bc) Senna leave for constipation: could cause diarrhea, then dehydration, then death. Mistletoe for contraception and sedative: poisonous. Modern medicine: purify the plants the get the active ingredient. 25% of modern medicines are made partially or entirely of plant molecules: the science.
