From my ethnopharmacochemical studies

This paper describes the selected topics from my ethnopharmacochemical studies particularly emphasizing the following ethnological viewpoints; (i) a pharmacochemical investigation of the roots of Petasites japonicum MAXIM. derived from the fork usage of a newborn baby for purgation in Japan; (ii) studies on the hypnotic active constituents of Hemerocallis fulva depending on the designation (forget one's sorrow) of the plant in Japan and China; (iii) traditional ritual and medical usages of Peucedanum japonicum THUNB. in Japan and its pharmacologically active constituents; (iv) a pharmacological investigation of the constituents of Centella asiatica URBAN corresponding to the usage in Ayuruvedic medicine as the drug of Brahma; (v) a total synthesis of plumbazeylanone, a constituent of Plumbago zeylanica L., started from an interest in the description of the Bower manuscript; and (vi) ethno-pharmacomedical interests in the republic of Fiji and other South Pacific Countries from the viewpoint of drugs in human life.