Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants.

An essential reference for those interested in the medicinal and botanical potential of rainforests.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Cheryll J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2021.
Subjects:
Botanical chemistry > Australia.
Rain forests > Australia.
Materia medica, Vegetable > Australia.
Medicinal plants > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Medicine.
Chimie végétale > Australie.
Phytothérapie > Australie.
Plantes médicinales > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Médecine.
Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.
Aboriginal Australians > Medicine
Botanical chemistry
Materia medica, Vegetable
Medicinal plants
Rain forests
Australia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Cultural sensitivity warning
  • Introduction
  • 1 Tropical rainforests: tales of plunder and protection
  • A PRECIOUS RESOURCE
  • MEDICINAL PLANTS: A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY
  • AUSTRALIA'S TROPICAL NORTH: PIONEER VISIONS
  • THE TIMBER TRADE
  • CEDAR AS MEDICINE
  • THE CONTENTIOUS ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
  • RAINFOREST REVEGETATION: PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE
  • RAINFOREST OAKS: RARE AND PRIMITIVE PROTEACEAE
  • AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST PROTEACEAE
  • EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICS
  • CONSERVING RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY
  • A FUTURE FOR OUR LAND?
  • REFERENCES
  • 2 Primeval links to the modern world
  • THE AGE OF THE PTERIDOPHYTES
  • ANCIENT LYCOPODS: RARE TASSEL FERNS (HUPERZIA AND PHLEGMARIURUS)
  • AQUATICS: THE EARLIEST FLOWERS OF THE WATERWAYS
  • WATERLILIES AS FOOD
  • MEDICINAL WATERLILIES: AN EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE
  • REFERENCES
  • 3 Timeless treasures: Gondwana and the rainforest refuge
  • ANCESTRAL GONDWANAN CONTINENTAL LINKS: THE SOUTHERN BEECHES
  • ANCIENT ANGIOSPERMS
  • AN EVOLVING TIME CAPSULE
  • SPECIAL PLACES: TROPICAL CLOUD FORESTS
  • ANGIOSPERMS OF ANTIQUITY
  • AUSTROBAILEYA: A RAINFOREST SPECIALIST
  • AN UNUSUAL NATIVE 'BITTER VINE'
  • IDIOSPERMUM IDIOSYNCRASIES
  • REFERENCES
  • 4 Ancient gymnosperms
  • GYMNOSPERM ODDITIES
  • CYCADS: A 'LIVING FOSSIL' LINEAGE
  • ANCIENT ARAUCARIANS
  • RESIN DITERPENES
  • ANCIENT ENDOPHYTES AS ANTICANCER DRUG RESOURCES
  • REFERENCES
  • 5 Pines and podocarps: environmental refugees
  • PODOCARPS: SURVIVAL AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION
  • GONDWANAN SURVIVORS
  • NATIVE PODOCARPS
  • PODOCARPS AS TRADITIONAL REMEDIES
  • NATIVE CYPRESS
  • CYPRESS RESINS AND OILS
  • THE MAGIC OF 'MEDICINAL SMOKE'
  • CALLITRIS: PESTICIDE AND ANTI-TUMOUR STUDIES
  • THE SEA HEARSE: AN ANTICANCER HERB?
  • REFERENCES
  • 6 Magnoliids: survivors from prehistory
  • MAGNOLIALES: VISIONS OF SPLENDOUR
  • MEDICINAL MAGNOLIA
  • LIRIODENDRON TULIP TREES: ANCIENT SURVIVORS FROM AMERICA AND CHINA
  • PRIMEVAL POLLINATORS
  • EUPOMATIA: THE NATIVE GUAVA
  • PIGEONBERRY ASH: A DIVINATORY TROPICAL TREE
  • REFERENCES
  • 7 Myristica: nutmeg and mace
  • AUSTRALIA'S NATIVE NUTMEGS
  • A TROPICAL 'CAPE NUTMEG' (HORSFIELDIA AUSTRALIANA)
  • THE NUTMEG SPICE
  • POTENT SPICE CHEMICALS
  • SAFROLE: TOXICOLOGICAL CONCERNS
  • MEDICINAL MYRISTICA
  • A MISTAKEN HALLUCINOGEN?
  • REFERENCES
  • 8 Antipodean phytochemicals
  • EARLY PHYTOCHEMICAL ENTERPRISES
  • THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST: VENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN
  • BOTANICAL LINKS WITH NEW GUINEA
  • ELLIPTICINE AND THE OCHROSIA PLUM
  • LOST OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS
  • BUILDING ON THE PAST
  • BLUSHWOOD: AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
  • REFERENCES
  • 9 Phytochemistry of the laurels
  • SOUTHERN SASSAFRAS
  • RAINFOREST MONIMIACEAE
  • LAURACEAE: ALKALOIDS AND ANTI-TUMOUR TESTING
  • NATIVE CAMPHOR
  • CINNAMON: RESURRECTION OF AN ANCIENT HERB
  • LITSEA AND NEOLITSEA

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