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Medicines and Supplements Derived from Plants and Fungi: A List and Reasons for Their Use, Slides of Medicine

Eternal University Medicine

A list of medicines and supplements derived from various plants and fungi, including willow, wintergreen berry, rye mold, and others. It also discusses the reasons why patients take these herbs and supplements, such as natural beliefs and the promise of results that only illegal drugs can achieve.

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What medicines came from

these plants and fungi?

•Willow

•Wintergreen berry

•Rye mold

•Bread mold

•Madagascar periwinkle

•Pacific yew

•Belladonna

•Foxglove

•Wormwood spp.

•Cassia spp.

•Autumn crocus

•Snakeroot (Rawulfia spp.)

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What medicines came from

these plants and fungi?

Willow
Wintergreen berry
Rye mold
Bread mold
Madagascar periwinkle
Pacific yew
Belladonna
Foxglove
Wormwood spp.
Cassia spp.
Autumn crocus
Snakeroot (Rawulfia spp.)

Top-selling Herbs

Garlic, ginko, ginseng, ginger, green tea extract
Echinacea
Saw palmetto
Cranberry, and other berry extracts like acai, bilberry, blueberry and blackberry
Soy isoflavones
Black cohosh
St. John’s wort
Mild thistle
Valerian
Red yeast rice
Guarana, mate
Castor oil
Senna
Hot pepper oil
Yohimbe, goat weed
Hawthorne
Ma huang (ephedra)
Kava-kava, betel, coca leaf, qat, marijuana

Reasons patients take

herbs/supplements

Natural = safe
Natural = God’s will (i.e., not a product of human

hubris)

Supplements promise results that currently only

illegal drugs can achieve

Different system of health beliefs, i.e., Ayurveda,

homeopathy and the doctine of signatures,

traditional Chinese, Vodun-related beliefs

Many pt’s mix and match beliefs and systems

Medicines and Supplements Derived from Plants and Fungi: A List and Reasons for Their Use, Slides of Medicine

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What medicines came from

these plants and fungi?

Top-selling Herbs

Reasons patients take

herbs/supplements

hubris)

illegal drugs can achieve

homeopathy and the doctine of signatures,

traditional Chinese, Vodun-related beliefs

freely

Case

• 57 year old man with PMH of hypertension, on 2

HTN meds at baseline, comes to the ED

complaining of severe headache and nausea,

diminished urination

• Found to have bp of 235/140, ISTAT of 0.32, Cr

4.5 (baseline 1.1). Attempts to control bp with

bolus IV labetalol and hydralazine not

successful, finally simultaneous IV labetalol and

NTG drips worked to get sbp down to 200’s, able

to titrate off drips starting about 18h after

admission, troponin declined, renal failure

resolved by discharge.