Let thy food be thy medicine: plants and modern medicine
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2012
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CONTENTS
1. Plants and Human Health 3
Our Early Relationship with Plants 5
Plants as Medicine 12
2. Bioprospecting for Medicines from Plants 14
Ethnobotany and Medicine 16
Modern Drug Discovery and Indigenous Cultures 20
Plants and Modern Drug Discovery 23
Examples of Medicines Derived from Plants 27
Impact of Biopiracy, Preservation of Biodiversity 37
Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous People 38
Conclusions 41
3. The Lure of Herbal Medicine 43
History 45
The Bioactive Compounds in Herbal Medicinal Plants 50
Traditional Indian Medicine 56
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) 62
What Nonscientists Should Know about Herbal Medicines 71
What Scientists Need to Know about Herbal Medicines 75
Could Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine Complement Each
Other? 77
Conclusions 79
4. Farming Medicines from Plants 82
Why Farm for Pharmaceuticals in Plants? 83
New Production Systems 86
How Does It Work? 87
Technologies Used to Design Plants Expressing
Biopharmaceuticals 89
Clinical Trials of Therapeutic Proteins Produced in Plants 97
Allergies, Oral Tolerance, and Dose Response Relationships to
Plant-made Vaccines 101
The Scale-Up and Commercialization Opportunities for Plant-derived
Therapeutic Proteins 102
Plant Production Platforms for Molecular Farming 104
Molecular Farming Requires Its Own Unique Set of Regulatory
Guidelines 104
Conclusions 105
5. Superfood: Functional and Biofortified Foods 107
The Science behind Functional Foods 108
Functional Foods and Human Genetics 111
The Mediterranean Diet: The Ideal Diet? 112
Do Dietary Supplements Work? 121
Functional Foods as Superfoods? 122
Biofortified Foods and Hidden Hunger 123
Can Biofortified Foods Make a Difference? 132
Conclusions 133
6. Food Security, Climate Change, and the Future of Farming 135
Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution 137
The Green Revolution Missed Africa 142
Agricultural Makeover: Sustainable Intensification 145
Up-and-Coming Technologies: Crop Improvement 146
Improved Farming Techniques 151
Environmental Uses for Plants 155
Agricultural Sustainability and Organic Food 158
Conclusions 162
7. The Future 164
Foods as Drugs 165
What Will the Food Industry Look Like? 168
An Urban Answer to Increased Food Production: Vertical Farms 169
Agricultural Sustainability and Protection of Biodiversity:
A Daunting Challenge 171
Biodiversity and the Search for New Medicines J 72
The Importance of Public Perception in Shaping Our Future 174
Regulating Agricultural Innovations Can Be a Double-Edged
Sword 175
Conclusions 177
Notes 179
References 181
Index 191
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