Curare: Used for poison darts. Penicillin: "Green" mold. Digitalis: Purple Fox Glove plant. Aspirin: By-product of coal tar. Salicin (from the bark of willow trees) is a precurser of aspirin, known to reduce fever and pain for centuries. Atropine: From belladonna plant, used for centuries by women to dilate their eyes. (Bella Donna = Beautiful Woman).
Can you list 3 medicines w/c are derived(comes) from cultural(alternate or complementary)medicines?
How about Artemisinine, digitalis, and tincture of belladona (atropine)?
Reply:I can only think of two: Aspirin and Digoxin.
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