#Pharmacognosy

[noosphe-re]

The definition and practice of pharmacognosy have been evolving since the term was first introduced about 200 years ago (Kinghorn, 2001; Samuelsson, 2004), as drug use from medicinal plants has progressed from the formulation of crude drugs to the isolation of active compounds in drug discovery. The American Society of Pharmacognosy refers to pharmacognosy as “the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances, or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources”. As practiced today, pharmacognosy involves the broad study of natural products from various sources including plants, bacteria, fungi, and marine organisms.

Marcy J. Balunas, A. Douglas Kinghorn, in Life Sciences, 2005 (source: ScienceDirect)

[aikoiya]

MH!Viktor x Fem!Poison Ivy Reader - Writing Prompt

MH!Viktor with a fem Pharmacognosist (Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal plants & other natural substances as sources of medicine, so she's both a botanist & pharmacologist/doctor at once) & biochemist Reader who, in contrast with Viktor becoming the Machine Harold, herself becomes something like Poison Ivy or Zyra.

Has greenish skin, long, wavy, dark hair (black or brown, doesn't matter) that reaches just past her rump, bright emerald irises with mint sclera, & wears a long leaf dress with a sexy slit up the skirt to show off some leg.

I dunno, maybe in an effort to try & save Viktor, Reader thought to infuse human DNA with liquified Nature & Healing Magic by making a sort of mutagenic formula with them to try & give humans regenerative abilities & tested it on herself first? Maybe, it ended up putting her into a coma. *shrugs*

The mutagenic formula worked, if she ever loses a limb or something, it just grows back brand new like Piccolo from DBZ or Deadpool. Much like Cell, if there's even one cell left, she can come back, though in those situations, it can take a while & lots of water & sunlight to recover fully. It also gave her phytokinesis/phytomancy (the ability to control plant life).

However, it took a week for her body to adapt as she was turned into a plant person. By that point, Viktor was back in Zaun, modifying himself.

Now, she hybridizes speleo-phytoremedial (cave-dwelling plants that actively clean the air, water, & earth around them), speleo-agronomical (cave-dwelling plants that can be used for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation), & speleo-ethnobotanical (cave-dwelling, wild plants used for medicine, food, & tools) plants & goes around Zaun growing them to decontaminate the city, healing, & teaching Zaunites how to grow cave-dwelling crops that can survive underground. Because of her, the Lanes are slowly starting to look more like Waterfall from Undertale.

Has recently been using Pearl of the Moon from Shurima in an attempt to make an antidote to alleviate the mutation, & possibly even addiction, effects of Shimmer. Tests have been encouraging. Might even be able to one day create a Shimmer variation used purely for medicinal purposes with little to no adverse effects.

This is what I think it looks like:

She is regarded by some of the Undercitizens as Viktor's exact opposite, his antithesis, & has her own following. Regarding her as some sort of Goddess of Life or the Wild. I'm thinking that she'll be called the Verdant Saint or Veridian Matron or something. Some of Viktor's more zealous followers think of her as a sort of anti-harold & despise her, going out of their way to try & destroy the plants she grows.

She continues to work with her phytomedical mutagen to better control the effects. Those who don't wish to replace their limbs with metal often go to her. Turns out that it only had the effect on her that it did because she, herself, was a magicborn aligned specifically with Nature & Healing magic.

For non-magicborn humans, it instead gives temporary regeneration, allowing them to grow back missing limbs or even help with regenerating/healing organs. It only lasts for 24 hours & the effects are slow-acting, so it often requires daily dosage. It, fortunately, isn't addictive, but it causes the regrown parts to be tinted a green gradient (from their regular skin tone to greenish) with obvious green veins. Said appendages tend to be able to be extremely flexible & able to be manipulated to a much finer degree. However, they are also more easily hurt & tends to require more water, not to mention being more susceptible to temperature. So, it's something of a mixed bag.

Anyway, at one point, Viktor & Reader meet & Viktor's followers bid him end the infidel or whatever, only to be blindsided when they are completely ignored in favor of the 2 openly flirting with each other. Just full witty banter while making eyes at each other. Viktor taking her hand & kissing the knuckle with a smirk on his lips & bedroom eyes while Reader giggles & flutters her lashes at him like a virginal maiden.

I'm thinking that they're somewhat like Melora & Erathis from DnD. So they represent Nature & Civilization or Tradition & Progress or 2 different types of Innovation or Evolution or something to that effect.

She wears a rose behind her ear that she's able to turn into either a rapier, a whip (with or without thorns), a dagger, or shortsword. She also always has rose seeds on her just in case so she's never truly disarmed.

Basically the Thornpiercer from The Griffon's Saddlebag.

Here's a list of all the flora & fungi I could think of for her to grow in Zaun:

[1001caythuocc]

Momordica charantia L. Cây Mướp Đắng Chữa Bệnh Tiểu Đường Và Các Bệnh Lý Khác

Theo Đông y, mướp đắng có tác dụng trừ nhiệt, thanh tâm, chỉ khát, trừ độc khí đơn hỏa, được dùng để chữa trị viêm đường tiết niệu, sỏi đường tiết niệu, trị bệnh tiểu đường, đau mắt đỏ, sốt cao…

Theo y học hiện đại, quả mướp đắng được sử dụng để chế biến rất nhiều món ăn ngon như: mướp đắng xào trứng, canh mướp đắng, mướp đắng nhồi thịt… Quả mướp đắng giúp kích thích ăn uống, tiêu viêm, thoát nhiệt bởi thành phần Alkaloid giúp lợi tiểu lưu thông máu. Ngoài ra thì đây cũng chính là thành phần giúp quả mướp đắng có công dụng phòng chống bệnh ung thư nữa.

Xem chi tiết tại: https://1001caythuoc.com/muop-dang

[olimpios]

Well-

[poisonerspath]

This year’s @botanicaobscuraconference has turned in to a weeklong extravaganza including presentations from over 30 herbalists, spiritual practitioners, witches, folklorists, psychedelic integration coaches, historians, and scholars all coming together to share their love of magical and medicinal plants and fungi. Here are a few from the line up! From psychedelic spirituality to modern bioregionalherbalism, @botanicaobscuraconference is proud to share such a large group of presenters from different backgrounds. This shows the diversity and scope of the work that we all do, each sharing a different piece of the puzzle to reconnect with nature and heal ourselves and our communities. All presentations are recorded and tickets available at Eventbrite. More info linked in bio and @botanicaobscuraconference - #botanicaobscuraconference #poisonpath #thepoisonpath #veneficium #banefulherbs #poisonousyplants #ethnobotany #pharmakeia #ethnobotanical #ethnobotany #pharmacognosy #plantyyspiritmedicine #plantspirithealing #plantlore #traditionalwitchcraft #traditionalwitch #plantlore #plantmagick #banefulherbs #magickalnightshade https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZ7OSbrihw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sentimentaliz]

I stumble across a lot of photos from last year's work on a pharmacognosy project in the phone gallery. It is a pity to delete it, because under the microscope a completely different picture opens up, which has its own aesthetics.

Hyperici herba;

Melissae officinalis herba;

Agrimoniae eupatoriae herba.

[raininyourblackeyes]

PASSED THE PRACTICAL EXAM WITH ALMOST PERECT SCORE 🥳

I was stressing so much over it since you have to do literally every question to pass. You can make some minor mistakes while drawing (like wrong shape of the cell) but any question with wrongly identified sample, or even one letter wrong in the latin name means you failed no matter that everything else might be perfect.

Almost started crying when TA told me I passed after the test. I could literally feel the pressure I put on my brain to memorize it all disappearing and my head feels so much lighter now that I'm not quizzing myself over the drawings and specifics of smell, colour etc. al the time

[wherenightmaresroost]

the frustration of needing a word for a very specific set of concepts but neither the google-fu skills to find it nor the etymological skills to make it myself

[1001caythuocc]

Psoralea corylifolia L. Cây Phá Cố Chỉ

Phá cố chỉ và bài thuốc trị đau lưng, mỏi gối.

Theo Đông y, Phá cố chỉ có vị cay, đắng, tính ấm, giúp bổ thận, tráng dương, trị đau lưng, mỏi gối do thận yếu…

Xem thêm tại: https://1001caythuoc.com/pha-co-chi

https://1001caythuoc.com/pha-co-chi

[curarems]

Good news: I am finally getting Making Money this week! Bad news: the worst part of my exams officialy falls on 25th of May. My first 25th of May in Discworld fandom and I'll spend it as the last and worst day of my exams. Is this what being cursed feels like.

[poisonerspath]

The next plant that I will be covering in my new series is Datura! There are a few different varieties of this species as well as the closely related Brugmansia which all have important ethnopharmacological significance and ceremonial use in different parts of the world. Datura is a very versatile herb showing us it’s proficiency as a shapeshifter. Join me in this 2 hour presentation on datura aka Thornapple where we will cover folklore, magic, medicine and phyto chemistry. If you attended the belladonna class you get a discount code for 10% off Datura 🖤 class is the last Sunday in February all info linked in bio #daturastramonium #thornapple #datura #Solanaceous #WitchingHerbs #HexingHerbs #botanicaobscuraconference #poisonpath #thepoisonpath #veneficium #banefulherbs #poisonousplants #ethnobotany #pharmakeia #ethnobotanical #ethnobotany #pharmacognosy #plantspiritmedicine #plantspirithealing #plantlore #poisonousplants #toxicology #ethnopharmacology #entheogens #entheology (at Saint Petersburg, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnW558Nrl9A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[larstudy]

🌼 07.04.2024 // It's the beginning of my two-weeks revision period before my exams and I started with 3 hours of pharmacognosy (even tho I hate that subject). It went slowly but surely and I reviewed the basics.

I made pancakes to motivate me to study on a (rainy) sunday (and it worked, they were delicious!!) and took some pictures of the flowers in my garden :))

[witchofthesouls]

I read that as tarn with zoomies and got confused for a second.

I love his bitties though, they could be chewing on him and he'd be so chill about it.

I had to correct it as I meant Zoom meetings 😅

Tarn may be a wet cat in the berth, but he really does enjoy the "new" spousal duties and fatherhood. To him, it's a natural extension of being a top-tier Decepticon as he doesn't realize it soothes the social connections his broken Seekerkin-coding has been howling for and receives the emotional fulfillment he's been craving since he onlined.

If the kids aren't with the wife, then he's hoarding them to himself. He really does adore having them all sprawl across his frame as they're still super young with simple harmonics in their EM fields, bursting with happiness and love in his presence.

He has taken up reading to bitties. Of course, Towards Peace is his default, but he also takes breaks with a series of Underground poetry and books about anatomy, declassified files, accounts about the Decepticon uprising, and your handwritten tales of Camien folklore, toxicology, and pharmacognosy.

[thejewitches]

Learn about the herbal traditions in Judaism..

[thewitfire]

Microscopic Characters of Digitalis-Medicinal Potential of Digitalis

Microscopic Characters of Digitalis-Medicinal Potential of Digitalis. #digitalis #microscopicanatomy #cardiacglycosides #medicinalplants #drugdevelopment #pharmacognosy #therapeuticpotential #herbalmedicine #phytochemistry #naturalmedicine

Microscopic Characters of Digitalis- Digitalis, commonly referred to as foxglove, contains several cardiac glycosides such as digoxin and digitoxin that give it its therapeutic effects. Table of Contents Table of ContentsMicroscopic Characters of DigitalisThe Epidermis: Structure and Function in Digitalis LeavesPalisade Cells: Morphology and PhotosynthesisSpongy Cells: Structure and…

[aikoiya]

Arcane AU - The Princess of Zaun

I kinda want an Arcane-style Prince of Egypt story.

Just a Zaunite mother somehow manages to get her daughter to Piltover where she's taken in by a wealthy family. A Councilor, maybe? I'm thinking that the mother's sister might've been the Councilor's wife. Though, either said Councilor wouldn't have known his wife's heritage or he believed that she was an exception to the rule. And, I think I'll make the wife have died a few years before the start of the story. Maybe the daughter hit her head & doesn't remember her life prior to Piltover?

I'm thinking of naming her Sabina.

Anyway, she grows up unknowing of the hardships endured by the Fissurefolk.

Maybe she studied pharmacognosy & phytoremediation at the Academy? So, both botany & medicine.

Anyway, then when HexTech kicks off she eventually meets Viktor & thinks that he's familiar.

Turns out that he'd been her friend as a child.

Something happens, she learns of all the shit the elite of Piltover, the Council, & the Enforcers has put her people through, asks her father, the Councilman, who is apathetic of the death toll of Fissurefolk, begins to remember her early life, specifically her mother's name & her friendship with Viktor, & runs away from both Piltover & Zaun. Maybe to Shurima.

Years pass & Sabina gets a message from Janna herself to free Zaun from Piltover & help it prosper.

She returns & slowly makes a name for herself doing good for the people of the Undercity before going up top to meet the Council & bargain with them for Zaun's freedom.

Make her a force for good in Zaun with the drive needed to get shit done.

I also want a full Plagues montage.

One of the plagues will definitely be all the water in the River Pilt lowering & receding until the Pilt is dry.

Another causes all HexTech in Piltover to be entirely depleted of magic. So, the Hex Gates are done.

Another causes all the water remaining in Piltover to become as toxic as what is in Zaun.

Another will be the air becoming as toxic as Zaun's as the sky is blotted out by smog & acid rain falls every day from then on.

I also have a scene in my head for a different scene for the Plague of the First Born. In it, Sabina tells her supporters living in Piltover to keep a Janna rose or a blue bird feather (not a bluebird feather, a blue bird feather; a bird feather that happens to be blue; but it has to be naturally blue, not a feather that has been dyed blue) on their person. Or for those who were forgetful, to hang one or the other from their door. Doing so will protect them from the disaster to come. A feather or rose held would protect the individual, but a rose or feather upon a door will protect an entire household.

On the day that it happens, Sabina stands on the Zaun end of the bridge & lifts her staff into the air. The wind begins to blow... Then, there's a sound like a train approaching & on the horizon rises what looks to be a blue wall. Hearts sink as it rises steadily only for all to realize that it isn't getting taller, but closer. It's a tidal wave. And it's approaching speedily... As it closes in, the wind gets stronger. Yet when it is finally upon the cities, a great vortex of wind covers Zaun & keeps even a single drop from falling upon the undercity. However, Piltover is submerged. Hours pass as the water slowly lowers until it's returned to a normal level.

Piltover is devastated. Despite this, only the first borns of every family that didn't have a Janna Rose or a blue bird feather upon their door or hadn't kept one or the other on their person, had died. All others had suffered & experienced a prolonged feeling of drowning, yet were kept alive.

Those who did carry a rose or a feather were blanketed by a protective wind that sustained them. Meanwhile the houses with one or the other upon their door were equally shielded.

Piltover is left broken & weeping.

Though, I definitely see Jayce as being the type to try & convince both Viktor, Mel, & his mother (who'd already have one on her at all times) to hold onto a feather (and failing that, would personally pin one to their doors the literal day of), as well as encouraging everyone in Piltover to pin one to their doors as well. Unfortunately, not many of the upper class would do so, the most who would, would be Piltover's middle & lower classes. This, in turn, would end up saving a lot of lives & creating a lot of believers.

This results in him being seen as a hero.

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Now that I think about it, I kinda wanna make her the result of a one-night stand with Silco from before he was betrayed by Vander. Either he's entirely clueless to her existence or he'd gotten scared when her mother told him & he rejected her.

Now, I can't stop thinking about her with Silco's eyes & hair color.

But, anyway, she wasn't just told to free Zaun, she was also told to clean it up. Meaning, get rid of Shimmer, get rid of the pollution, & instate a constitutional republic rather than the industrial oligarchy that it has now wherein the Chem-Barons (who, besides Silco & even then it's a bit dubious, don't honestly care one whit about Zaun's overall health & well-being so long as it keeps them in power) are the ones in-charge. (By comparison, Piltover is an aristocratic oligarchy where only a handfull of the rich are in-charge & make all the decisions.) Which means going up against the Chem-Barons & specifically Silco. And possibly even learning that he is her father.

I have a theory that since the Pearl of the Moon is used to ward off Voidkin, that it must have an effect on them. So, it could possibly be used to make a medicine that helps to alleviate some of the negative effects of Shimmer.

I also feel like, upon taking in & becoming attached to Jinx, Silco would sometimes wonder about the child he'd sired but had rejected & can't help but feel that he'd betrayed them.

Which, in turn, would cause some mixed feelings from him at learning the child he rejected was the one to save Zaun. And even more mixed feelings at her dismantling all he'd built.

I'm also thinking that Sabina eventually ends up with Viktor.

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