Lecture 6- Allelochemicals, Health, and the Human Diet

Question 1

Disocorides

Answer 1

Recorded medicinal practice o ancient Greece and the Roman Empire during the time of Nero

Question 2

Herbal Texts

Question 3

Hippocrates

Answer 3

opposites cure opposites

physicians recognized disease as a natrual process

Question 4

Humors

Answer 4

black bile
blood
yellow bile
phlegm

Question 5

Johns’ Hypothesis

Answer 5

allelochemicals + essential health promoting constituents

humans have lost the disease controlling effects of these compounds, medicines = compensation for loss

Question 6

Materia Medica

Answer 6

Ben Cao Gang Mu “Drugs” by Li Shizen
- 1892 drugs, >11000 recipes

Serat kawruh bab jampi-jampi from Indonesia,

Qanun f’l tibb, canon of Medicine
- one of the most influential medicinal works
- incorporated dioscorides works

Question 7

Cell Theory

Answer 7

cells are the funamental units of life and carry out all of the basic function of living things

Question 8

Germ theory of disease

Answer 8

microorganisms can invade other organisms and cause disease

Question 9

Spontaneous generation

Answer 9

microorganisms arise form nonliving things, such as maggots