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| **Papaver                orientale.******                From William Curtis' *Botanical Magazine*.                National Agricultural Library Special Collections, ARS, USDA.  Medicinal Plants
**Tracer Bullet 04-2**
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**SCOPE**
 Plants continue to be a major source of medicines, as they                have been throughout human history. Some medicinal plants, such                as the opium poppy, have long been recognized and widely used,                while others, such as the Pacific yew, the original source for                the cancer drug, Taxol, are relatively new arrivals to mainstream                medicine. In addition to providing the basis for between 30 and                40 percent of today’s conventional drugs, the medicinal                and curative properties of various plants are also employed in              herbal supplements, botanicals, nutraceuticals and teas. 

 Drug discovery, ethnobotany, and traditional and indigenous                medicines have long been basic to medicinal plant research. As                new uses for medicinal plants have been discovered and popularized,                sustainability has become increasingly an issue; concern over                the growth in biopiracy goes hand in hand with the critical need                for conservation of both species and	habitat. 

 This update of an earlier *Tracer Bullet* (TB 91-8), provides                references to published materials on plants containing substances                of medicinal value. Publications issued since 1990, as well as                those that researchers have found particularly useful in their                work over the years, are emphasized. This *Tracer Bullet has* been                compiled to assist researchers in navigating the databases, electronic                resources and print materials related to medicinal plants and                to locate relevant materials in the Library’s collections.                Lists of other agencies, institutions, and organizations are                provided as starting points for further study. Not intended to                be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is designed--as the                name of	the series implies--to put the reader “on target.”

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**INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TOPIC**
 Balick, Michael J., and Paul Alan Cox.  Plants that heal.  In              their *Plants, people, and culture: the science of ethnobotany*. New York, Scientific American Library, c1996. p.25-61.                   GN476.73.B35 1996 <SciRR>

Shulz, Volker, Rudolf Hänsel, and Mark Blumenthal. Medicinal              plants, phytomedicines, and phytotherapy. In their *Rational              phytotherapy: a physicians’ guide to herbal medicine.* 4th ed. Berlin, New              York, Springer, 2001. p. 1-39.                 RM666.H33S3813 2001 <SciRR>

Skidmore-Roth, Linda. Introduction. In her *Mosby’s handbook              of herbs & natural supplements*. 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mosby, c2004.              p. ix-xxii.                 RM666.H33S575 2004 <SciRR>

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**SUBJECT HEADINGS**
 Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which               books on medicinal plants can be located, include the following:

**Highly Relevant**
BOTANY, MEDICALMATERIA MEDICA, VEGETABLEMEDICINAL PLANTSMEDICINE, HERBALPHARMACOGNOSYPHYTOCHEMICALS
**Relevant**
APPLIED ETHNOBOTANECONOMIC BOTANYETHNOBOTANYETHNOSCIENCEHERBS--THERAPEUTIC USEINTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
**Related**
BOTANICAL CHEMISTRYBOTANICAL PLANT INDUSTRYPLANTS--USEFULPLANT PRODUCTSWILD PLANTS--EDIBLE
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**BASIC TEXTS**
 	Lewis, Walter Hepworth, and  Memory P.F. Elvin-Lewis. *Medical              botany: plants affecting human health*. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, J.              Wiley, c2003. 812 p.   Includes bibliographies.   RS164.L475 2003 <SciRR>

  Ross, Ivan A. *Medicinal plants of the world: chemical constituents, traditional    and modern medicinal uses*. 2nd ed. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2003. 2 v.        Includes bibliographies.	   R676 2003 <SciRR>

 Stuart, David C. *Dangerous garden: the quest for plants to                change our lives*. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004. 208 p.     Bibliography: p. 204.     QK99.A1S79 2004

 Sumner, Judith. *The natural history of medicinal plants*. Portland,              OR, Timber Press, c2000. 235 p.			      Includes bibliographies.			       QK99QK99.A1S86 2000 <SciRR>

 Van Wyk, Ben-Erik, and Michael Wink. *Medicinal plants of                the world: an illustrated scientific guide to important medicinal                plants              and their uses*. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 2004. 480 p. 			     Bibliography: p. 442-444 |