By Peter Houghton
Valerian, is an updated remedy of all features of this vitally important genus of crops, utilized in the conventional medication of many elements of the area, relatively as a sedative. It comprises fabric written by means of specialists facing quite a few facets together with the ethnobotany, chemistry, pharmacology, cultivation, research and advertisement points of Valeriana.
This ebook should be of curiosity to all these curious about the research and use of medicinal and fragrant vegetation and offers a complete and modern assessment of the prestige of this actual genus.
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Plantes Spektroskopie. Planta Med. 50, 4—6. Forster W, Becker, H. and Rodriguez, E. (1984) HPLC analysis of valepotriates in the North American genera Plectritis and Valeriana. Planta Medica 50, 7—9. , Petersen, U. and Hiiper, F. (1970) Valerianine, a tertiary monoterpene alkaloid from Valerian. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 9, 891. Hthnopharmacology 22, 121—142. Med. Phytother. 19, 84-88. , Venera, G. and Ciongo, E. ); Actinidine et naphtyridylmethylcetone, nouvel alcaloide. Annales Pharmaceutiques Francises 37, 413—420.
1982) revealed that valtrate 3, isovaltrate 4 and didrovaltrate 5 probably act as 68 JOSEF HOLZL THE PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS OF VALERIANA 69 musculotropic agents. Their action may be due to an influence on the entry of Ca2+ ions or on their binding to the muscle. During the course of receptor-binding studies several substances from V. officinalis were isolated that bind specifically to receptors. Nearly all the separate compounds from the group of valepotriates were constructed and tested on different receptors.
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