Zarnab, an enigmatic drug of the Arab-Islamic pharmacopoeia: a proposal for elucidation
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- Jamal BELLAKHDAR (FR)
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Zarnab, an enigmatic drug of arabo-islamic pharmacopoeia : proposition of elucidation.
By basing our work on analysis of the zarnab’s descriptions find in arabo-islamic medical writings of various periods and by comparing them with the floristic, ethnobotanic, phytochemical and linguistic data that we managed to collect following an important bibliographical compilation concerning a territory which extends from the Middle East to China, we tried to clarify the enigmatic nature of this simple aromatic for which all the identities which were proposed up to there were considered as not satisfactory.
This comparative study, realized in closer of the ancient texts and the acquired knowledge today on plants, their compositions, their vernacular names and their uses, allowed us to express propositions of elucidation of the identity of the zarnab, in agreement with the various interpretations given by the ancient authors, an identity which declines differently according to the space and the period considered. This differentiation of the zarnab in several products was made according to a logic that we tried to understand and that we explain.
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