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Periodic Graphics: Common stimulants from plants
Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning describes some well-known stimulants that plants make and why they make them.
by Andy Brunning, special to C&EN
February 27, 2022
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 100, Issue 8
To download a pdf of this article, visit http://cenm.ag/stimulants.
References used to create this graphic:
Oliver-Bever, B. “Why Do Plants Produce Drugs? Which Is Their Function in the Plants?” Q. J. Crude Drug Res. (1970). DOI: 10.3109/13880207009066221.
Spinella, Marcello. The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Wiart, Christophe. “Plants Affecting the Central Nervous System.” In Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific, 57–153. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2006.
A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest
To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, visit http://cenm.ag/periodicgraphics.
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