The chemical anthropology of antimicrobial plants.(Medical Anthropology) From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduction

Traditional people have been using powerfully antimicrobial plants for thousands of years as part of their diet and pharmaceutical arsenal. Recently, people in industrialized nations have begun to express interest in these natural products. However, Hospital-based medicine has been slow to embrace medicinal plants and extracts as a source of drugs. For example, an article by M. Cowan in Clinical Microbiology Reviews (October 1999) notes that while 25 to 50% of current pharmaceuticals are derived from plants, none are used as antimicrobials. Cowan notes that ...

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