%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A Prinz, A.
%T D'un remède ancestral à un médicament moderne : sur la piste et les fausses pistes du Rauwolfia
%B Médicaments et aliments : approche ethnopharmacologique = Medicines andfoods : ethnopharmacological approach
%C Paris (FRA) ; Metz
%D 1996
%E Schröder, E.
%E Balansard, G.
%E Cabalion, Pierre
%E Fleurentin, J.
%E Mazars, G.
%L fdi:010005515
%G FRE
%I ORSTOM ; SFE
%@ 2-7099-1320-8
%K PHARMACOPEE ; MEDECINE TRADITIONNELLE ; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGIE ; HISTOIRE ; PLANTE MEDICINALE ; ALCALOIDE ; TAXONOMIE ; INDUSTRIE PHARMACEUTIQUE
%P 18-29
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010005515
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/010005515.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The #Rauwolfia$ is a striking example how long a traditionally used drug and its importance for modern therapy was not recognized. As early as 1563 the Portuguese physician Garcia da Orta reported about the use of a snake-like root as a remedy against snake bites in the traditional medicine of Ceylon. This "snakewood" was introduced in European medicine only a few years later. Drugs from the newly discovered continents, like Ipecacuanha or Chinchonabark were accepted very quickly by the European doctors. They had welcomed every addition to their poor materia medica in that time. #Rauwolfia$ was used in European medicine in the same way as in India against intermittent fever, worms, snakebites and delirant conditions. In the 19th century #Rauwolfia$ disappeared from the pharmacopoeias. The newly established "scientific medicine" started to clean its materia medica from "absurd" and "magical" elements. Victim to these activities was the #Rauwolfia$ as well. Its usefulness was not recognised due to the pathophysiological ignorance about hypertonia and ventricular tachycardia, today the most important indications for #Rauwolfia$-alcaloides. Only as late as 1952, with the discovery of the alcaloid Reserpin, the #Rauwolfia$ was rehabilitated as a highly effective drug. (Résumé d'auteur)
%S Colloques et Séminaires
%B Colloque Européen d'Ethnopharmacologie = European Symposium on Ethnopharmacology; Conférence Internationale d'Ethnomédecine = International Conference on Ethnomedicine
%8 1993/03/24-27
%$ 076PLAMED03