Nature Has Been Relieving Pain & Treating Disease For 1000's of Years
"Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well."
Medicine Only Mimics Nature
Despite great advances in rational drug design, most prescribed medicines used in industrialized countries today still are derived from, or patterned after, natural compounds from plants, animals, and microbes. This is particularly true for drugs that treat infections and cancers.
Fine Tuned Over Time
Because other organisms also need to protect themselves against infections and cancers and other diseases people get; because Nature has been making biologically active compounds for close to 4 billion years (and conducting its own “clinical trials” on these compounds, which, if they didn’t work, are no longer around); and because of the remarkable uniformity of all living things, particularly at the genetic and molecular level, plants, animals, and microbes contain virtually an endless supply of potential medicines for human diseases.
Some compounds from plants that have been particularly important for human medicine include: morphine from the Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum), aspirin from the White Willow Tree (Salix alba vulgaris), and the anticoagulant coumadin from spoiled sweet clover (Melilotus species). Tropical plants such as the Madagascar, or Rosy, Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) have yielded vinblastine (which has revolutionized the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, turning a disease that was once uniformly fatal into one that can now be totally cured in many patients) and vincristine (which has done the same for acute childhood leukemia).
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