1999 Volume 119 Issue 3 Pages 185-198
This paper describes the selected topics from my ethnopharmacochemical studies particularly emphasizing the following ethnological viewpoints; (i) a pharmacochemical investigation of the roots of Petasites japonicum MAXIM. derived from the fork usage of a newborn baby for purgation in Japan; (ii) studies on the hypnotic active constituents of Hemerocallis fulva depending on the designation (forget one's sorrow) of the plant in Japan and China;(iii) traditional ritual and medical usages of Peucedanum japonicum THUNB. in Japan and its pharmacologically active constituents; (iv) a pharmacological investigation of the constituents of Centella asiatica URBAN corrresponding to the usage in Ayuruvedic medicine as the drug of Brahma; (v) a total synthesis of plumbazeylanone, a constituent of Plumbago zeylanica L., started from an interest in the description of the Bower manuscript; and (vi) ethnopharmacomedical interests in the republic of Fuji and other South Pacific Countries from the viewpoint of drugs in human life.
