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AFTER an interval of four years Prof. Tschirch has continued the publication of his compendious “Handbook of Pharmacognosy” and issued the first part of the last volume. About twenty parts will ...

Nightshade is a family of plants that includes tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and peppers. Tobacco is also in the nightshade family. Nightshades are unique because they contain small amounts of ...

Ergot alkaloids are a group of headache medicines that include dihydroergotamine (Migranal, Trudhesa, others) and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to treat ...

Scorpion venom packs more than a painful sting. It’s also chock full of novel bioactive compounds—most of them polypeptides—that intrigue scientists. For the first time, researchers have identified an ...

Elemental sulfur has helped bring an end to chemists’ 40-year quest to synthesize (–)-acetylaranotin, an intricately structured alkaloid first isolated from fungi (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: ...

OF all the American works on pharmacognosy, none is so well known in this country as Prof. Kraemer's, and every pharmacognosist will welcome the appearance of a second edition as affording the author ...

Barley is one of the most important cereal crops on a global scale. Many barley cultivars produce a toxic alkaloid called gramine that affects the suitability of barley as fodder, but also helps to ...

Researchers have highlighted cases of tropane alkaloid contamination in Italy and called for increased monitoring and regulation. The study detailed recent cases of tropane alkaloid intoxication after ...

What does cannabis, coca leaf, and all coffee have in common? They all contain alkaloids, a powerful group of medicinal compounds found in plants around the world. While little is presently known ...