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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Collingwood : : CSIRO Publishing,, 2021. Ã2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (585 pages) |
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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
- MEDICINAL LINDERA
- CUBEBS: THE FRAGRANT LITSEA
- THE BOLLY BEECH, LITSEA GLUTINOSA
- PARASITIC DODDERS: CASSYTHA AND CUSCUTA
- REFERENCES
- 10 Rare and toxic rainforest walnuts
- SURVIVAL IN THE FOREST
- THE RAINFOREST WALNUTS
- FORAGING FOR FRUIT
- THE GENUS BEILSCHMIEDIA
- CRYPTOCARYA: MEDICINES FROM TOXINS?
- A RARE POISON WALNUT
- COCONUT LAURELS: THE MEDICINAL MASSOIA
- REFERENCES
- 11 Annonaceae: poisons, parasites and pesticides
- ANCIENT ANNONACEAE
- AUSTRALIAN ANNONACEAE
- SOUTH-EAST ASIAN ASSOCIATES
- FEBRIFUGES AND ANTIPARASITIC HERBS
- BIOACTIVE ANNONACEAE ALKALOIDS
- ANTIBACTERIAL ANNONACEAE
- XYLOPIA: A PANTROPICAL SURVIVOR
- FAMED FRAGRANCE OF THE ORIENT: YLANG-YLANG
- TOXIC DEFENCES
- TICKS, LICE AND WORMS.
- ACETOGENINS: A POTENT, BUT POISONOUS, PHARMACY
- A CURE FOR CANCER?
- THE PESTILENTIAL POND APPLE (ANNONA GLABRA)
- REFERENCES
- 12 Spices of ancient origins
- THE RAINFOREST PEPPERBUSHES
- POLYGODIAL: AN EFFECTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL?
- AN EXPANDING PHARMACY: ESSENTIAL OIL SESQUITERPENES
- ANCIENT PEPPERS: THE PIPER VINES
- PEPPER VINE MEDICINES
- PEPPER: OLEORESINS AND OILS
- NATIVE PEPPER VINES
- PEPEROMIA: FORGOTTEN FOLK MEDICINES?
- PIPERINE: A POTENT PHARMACEUTICAL
- PIPER FOR PARASITES
- PIPER: A TRADITIONAL PHARMACOPOEIA
- REFERENCES
- 13 Birthworts and butterflies
- ARISTOLOCHIA: THE ART OF ENTICEMENT
- NATIVE AND EXOTIC BIRTHWORTS
- BUTTERFLIES IN THE BUSH
- BIRTHWORTS IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
- SHOCKING REVELATIONS: ARISTOLOCHIC ACID, THE HIDDEN TOXIN
- TRICKY TRANSLATIONS
- A CARCINOGEN REVEALED
- HERBS THAT PROTECT KIDNEY FUNCTION
- IMMUNE TONICS AND ANTIMICROBIALS
- INVESTIGATING ARISTOLOCHIA
- WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
- REFERENCES
- Appendix: Ancient angiosperm plant families: plants with an ancient lineage native to the tropics of Northern Australia
- Index.