Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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=Tobacco Plants= | =Tobacco Plants= | ||
==Medicinal Uses of Tobacco== | |||
===2004: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079499/ Medicinal uses of tobacco in history]=== | |||
*Conclusion: "In my own review of the published work four points struck me forcibly. First, too much was expected of tobacco. In medieval times, most herbs would be used only for a few conditions in which it was deemed effective—not for a vast range of disorders from head lice to haemorrhoids, from hysteria to tetanus, as happened with tobacco. Secondly, writings on this subject commonly imply that nicotine is the only active medicinal constituent, yet the various species of Nicotiana contain many other alkaloids. Thirdly, the leaves and juice were much used for skin disorders, possibly including basal cell cancer. Might tobacco leaves contain an anticancer agent, as proved to be the case with periwinkle (vinca alkaloids)? Fourthly, in therapeutic applications of tobacco, dosage was largely uncontrolled. With any useful agent, excess dosage will do harm. I suggest we should set aside the prejudices generated by the ill-effects of tobacco smoking and examine the leaves systematically for substances of therapeutic value." | |||
==Using the plant to make vaccines - Studies, Scholarly Comments== | ==Using the plant to make vaccines - Studies, Scholarly Comments== | ||