Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest : Medicinal Potential of Ancient Plants / Cheryll J. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Cheryll J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botanical chemistry--Australia.

Botanical chemistry.

Rain forests--Australia.

Rain forests.

Materia medica, Vegetable--Australia.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Medicinal plants--Australia.

Medicinal plants.

Aboriginal Australians--Medicine.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

An essential reference for those interested in the medicinal and botanical potential of rainforests.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Dedication

Title

Copyright

Contents

Cultural sensitivity warning

Introduction

1 Tropical rainforests: tales of plunder and protection

A PRECIOUS RESOURCE

MEDICINAL PLANTS: A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY

AUSTRALIA'S TROPICAL NORTH: PIONEER VISIONS

THE TIMBER TRADE

CEDAR AS MEDICINE

THE CONTENTIOUS ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

RAINFOREST REVEGETATION: PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE

RAINFOREST OAKS: RARE AND PRIMITIVE PROTEACEAE

AUSTRALIAN TROPICAL RAINFOREST PROTEACEAE

EXTINCTION IN THE TROPICS

CONSERVING RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY

A FUTURE FOR OUR LAND?

REFERENCES

2 Primeval links to the modern world

THE AGE OF THE PTERIDOPHYTES

ANCIENT LYCOPODS: RARE TASSEL FERNS (HUPERZIA AND PHLEGMARIURUS)

AQUATICS: THE EARLIEST FLOWERS OF THE WATERWAYS

WATERLILIES AS FOOD

MEDICINAL WATERLILIES: AN EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE

3 Timeless treasures: Gondwana and the rainforest refuge

ANCESTRAL GONDWANAN CONTINENTAL LINKS: THE SOUTHERN BEECHES

ANCIENT ANGIOSPERMS

AN EVOLVING TIME CAPSULE

SPECIAL PLACES: TROPICAL CLOUD FORESTS

ANGIOSPERMS OF ANTIQUITY

AUSTROBAILEYA: A RAINFOREST SPECIALIST

AN UNUSUAL NATIVE 'BITTER VINE'

IDIOSPERMUM IDIOSYNCRASIES

4 Ancient gymnosperms

GYMNOSPERM ODDITIES

CYCADS: A 'LIVING FOSSIL' LINEAGE

ANCIENT ARAUCARIANS

RESIN DITERPENES

ANCIENT ENDOPHYTES AS ANTICANCER DRUG RESOURCES

5 Pines and podocarps: environmental refugees

PODOCARPS: SURVIVAL AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION

GONDWANAN SURVIVORS

NATIVE PODOCARPS

PODOCARPS AS TRADITIONAL REMEDIES

NATIVE CYPRESS

CYPRESS RESINS AND OILS

THE MAGIC OF 'MEDICINAL SMOKE'

CALLITRIS: PESTICIDE AND ANTI-TUMOUR STUDIES

THE SEA HEARSE: AN ANTICANCER HERB?

REFERENCES.

6 Magnoliids: survivors from prehistory

MAGNOLIALES: VISIONS OF SPLENDOUR

MEDICINAL MAGNOLIA

LIRIODENDRON TULIP TREES: ANCIENT SURVIVORS FROM AMERICA AND CHINA

PRIMEVAL POLLINATORS

EUPOMATIA: THE NATIVE GUAVA

PIGEONBERRY ASH: A DIVINATORY TROPICAL TREE

7 Myristica: nutmeg and mace

AUSTRALIA'S NATIVE NUTMEGS

A TROPICAL 'CAPE NUTMEG' (HORSFIELDIA AUSTRALIANA)

THE NUTMEG SPICE

POTENT SPICE CHEMICALS

SAFROLE: TOXICOLOGICAL CONCERNS

MEDICINAL MYRISTICA

A MISTAKEN HALLUCINOGEN?

8 Antipodean phytochemicals

EARLY PHYTOCHEMICAL ENTERPRISES

THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST: VENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN

BOTANICAL LINKS WITH NEW GUINEA

ELLIPTICINE AND THE OCHROSIA PLUM

LOST OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

BUILDING ON THE PAST

BLUSHWOOD: AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY

9 Phytochemistry of the laurels

SOUTHERN SASSAFRAS

RAINFOREST MONIMIACEAE

LAURACEAE: ALKALOIDS AND ANTI-TUMOUR TESTING

NATIVE CAMPHOR

CINNAMON: RESURRECTION OF AN ANCIENT HERB

LITSEA AND NEOLITSEA

MEDICINAL LINDERA

CUBEBS: THE FRAGRANT LITSEA

THE BOLLY BEECH, LITSEA GLUTINOSA

PARASITIC DODDERS: CASSYTHA AND CUSCUTA

10 Rare and toxic rainforest walnuts

SURVIVAL IN THE FOREST

THE RAINFOREST WALNUTS

FORAGING FOR FRUIT

THE GENUS BEILSCHMIEDIA

CRYPTOCARYA: MEDICINES FROM TOXINS?

A RARE POISON WALNUT

COCONUT LAURELS: THE MEDICINAL MASSOIA

11 Annonaceae: poisons, parasites and pesticides

ANCIENT ANNONACEAE

AUSTRALIAN ANNONACEAE

SOUTH-EAST ASIAN ASSOCIATES

FEBRIFUGES AND ANTIPARASITIC HERBS

BIOACTIVE ANNONACEAE ALKALOIDS

ANTIBACTERIAL ANNONACEAE

XYLOPIA: A PANTROPICAL SURVIVOR

FAMED FRAGRANCE OF THE ORIENT: YLANG-YLANG

TOXIC DEFENCES

TICKS, LICE AND WORMS.

ACETOGENINS: A POTENT, BUT POISONOUS, PHARMACY

A CURE FOR CANCER?

THE PESTILENTIAL POND APPLE (ANNONA GLABRA)

12 Spices of ancient origins

THE RAINFOREST PEPPERBUSHES

POLYGODIAL: AN EFFECTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL?

AN EXPANDING PHARMACY: ESSENTIAL OIL SESQUITERPENES

ANCIENT PEPPERS: THE PIPER VINES

PEPPER VINE MEDICINES

PEPPER: OLEORESINS AND OILS

NATIVE PEPPER VINES

PEPEROMIA: FORGOTTEN FOLK MEDICINES?

PIPERINE: A POTENT PHARMACEUTICAL

PIPER FOR PARASITES

PIPER: A TRADITIONAL PHARMACOPOEIA

13 Birthworts and butterflies

ARISTOLOCHIA: THE ART OF ENTICEMENT

NATIVE AND EXOTIC BIRTHWORTS

BUTTERFLIES IN THE BUSH

BIRTHWORTS IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

SHOCKING REVELATIONS: ARISTOLOCHIC ACID, THE HIDDEN TOXIN

TRICKY TRANSLATIONS

A CARCINOGEN REVEALED

HERBS THAT PROTECT KIDNEY FUNCTION

IMMUNE TONICS AND ANTIMICROBIALS

INVESTIGATING ARISTOLOCHIA

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

Appendix: Ancient angiosperm plant families: plants with an ancient lineage native to the tropics of Northern Australia

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Williams, Cheryll J. Phytochemistry of Australia's Tropical Rainforest

ISBN:

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