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Nature Helps... - How Plants and Other Organisms Contribute to Solve Health Problems (Hardcover, Edition.)
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Nature Helps... - How Plants and Other Organisms Contribute to Solve Health Problems (Hardcover, Edition.)
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 1
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Nature helps... of course at first itself by developing measures
that give bacteria, fungi, plants and animals a chance to be
successful in their struggle for life. As a latecomer on Earth,
Homo sapiens was gifted with some droplets of the divine spirit of
recognition and thus became able to observe, to analyse and
recombine skills of other living beings and to use them for his
overwhelming career over the last 10,000 years.Of course fungi,
plants, animals and even bacteria were primarily used by mankind as
food or as lifestyle products such as beer, but soon it became
clear that there was much more potential hidden in these organisms
and that they could be used for other purposes, too. Extracts of
plants and fungi were recognized as powerful remedies, as
medicines, as insecticides or acarizides, as repellents against
parasites or even as weapons, e.g. when poisonous compounds from
frogs or plants were applied to arrowheads. Over the last 110 years
the pharmaceutical industry has often simulated nature by analyzing
complex organic substances taken from living organisms and then
producing by synthesis absolutely pure compounds, which mostly
consisted of only one single active substance. These products had
the advantage of acting against precisely one target and thus
produced fewer possible side effects than the complex plant
extracts. However, the more serious side effect was that disease
agents could develop resistances to pure medicinal products much
more easily. Thus after 70 years of excellent prospects for
chemotherapy, some dark clouds appeared and quickly gathered, so
that several therapeutic remedies now no longer work. Therefore in
many countries - especially in those where the pure
chemotherapeutics are too expensive for the poor population - the
cry "back to nature" is becoming louder and louder. This has led to
an enormous increase of studies that again use natural extracts as
remedies in the fight against diseases. The present book summarizes
examples of promising aspects in a broad spectrum of applications
and shows how extracts derived from bacteria, marine organisms,
plants or even animals may help to treat infectious diseases, how
such organisms may keep away parasites and pests from the bodies of
plants or animals, including humans, and how they can be used
directly to aid in diagnosis, promote wound healing and even to
help catch criminals. These 15 chapters offer not only basic
research on these different fields, but also show how useful and
effective products can be developed from research.
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