historical and modern use of plants

           

plant	Data
Plant name:	Curare
Historical use:	He also established its chemical structure. It was introduced into anesthesia in the early 1940s as a muscle relaxant for surgery. Curare is active toxic or muscle-relaxing, depending on the intended use only by an injection or a direct wound contamination by poisoned dart or arrow. It is harmless if taken orally because curare compounds are too large and highly charged to pass through the lining of the digestive tract to be absorbed into the blood.
Current use (if any)	Is a large poisonous vine rich in alkaloids. The alkaloids relax muscles and are used as an arrow poison. In South America, it is used to treat bruises, fever, edema, and kidney stones. It is also used as an anesthesia.
Plant name:	Burduck
Historical use:	Curative uses of herbs, traditional healing practices, and other medicinal “family secrets” were cautiously guarded and passed down from one generation to the next. Of course, some of the past’s touted cures were not really cures at all. “Little by little and through the years, suspicion as to the validity of any natural, herbal remedy began to take root.
Current use (if any):	The dried root of the burdock species of plants is used to make an herbal remedy known simply as the burdock. This remedy is actually made from the dried first year root of the great botanical name: Arctium minus of the plant family Asteraceae found in the temperate regions of the world.
*city:	Santo Domingo
*state:	Dominican republic
*school:	ICDA