Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g
ISBN: 978-3-7091-7333-6
Verlag: Springer Vienna
The Leguminosae is an economically important family in the Dicotyledonae with many cultivated species, e. g., beans and peas. The family also contains many well-known medicinal plants. It is composed of 17,000 or more species that constitute nearly one twelfth of the world's flowering plants (1). Traditionally the family has been divided into three subfamilies, Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae and Papilionoi deae, which are sometimes recognized as separate families Caesalpinia ceae, Mimosaceae and Papilionaceae. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature permits alternative nomenclatures, the family names being replaced by Fabaceae, Fabales and Faboideae, and this usage will be common (2). Licorice (liquorice, kanzoh in Japanese, gancao in Chinese) is the name applied to the roots and stolons of some Glycyrrhiza species (Fabaceae) and has been used by human beings for at least 4000 years. The earliest written reference to the use of licorice is contained in the Codex Hammurabi dating from 2100 B. C., and the subsequent history in the West has been described in the earlier reviews (3-6). In the Far East, references to the effectiveness of licorice are contained in the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing", the first Chinese dispensatory whose original anonymous volumes probably appeared by the end of the third century (7, 8).
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- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Pharmazeutische Chemie, Medizinische Chemie
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie
- Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie
- Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie
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Phenolic Constituents of Licorice (Glycyrrhiza Species).- 1. Introduction.- 2. Triterpenoid Saponins.- 3. Phenolic Compounds.- 4. Recent Methods of Structure Determination of Prenylated Phenols.- 5. Biological Activities of Phenolic Constituents of Glycyrrhiza Species.- Acknowledgments.- References.- Author Index.
