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Plant Introduction, 99/100, 32–35 (2023)
REVIEW
Review of the book: Minarchenko V.M. et al. “Atlas of morphological and
anatomical features of raw materials of wild related species of medicinal plants
of Ukraine” / Minarchenko V.M., Timchenko I.A., Dvirna T.S., Futorna O.A.,
Makhinya L.M., Glushchenko L.A. – Kyiv: Palivoda A.V., 2022. – 406 p.
Viktor Vergunov
Academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences
Academician-Secretary of the Department of Scientific Support for Innovative Development of the National Academyof Agrarian Sciences
National Scientific Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine, Heroiv Oborony str. 10, 03127
Kyiv, Ukraine; dnsgb_uaan@ukr.net
Received: 14.11.2023 | Accepted: 18.11.2023 | Published online: 20.11.2023
https://doi.org/10.46341/PI2023009
UDC 655.552 : 581.4 + 581.8
Many scientific and popular science books,
handbooks, monographs are devoted to
medicinal plants and medicinal plants raw
materials, and are written by botanists,
pharmacists, medical workers, etc. The first, as
a rule, pay special attention to plants, places of
their growth, methods and terms of harvesting
raw materials, more concisely - to the
chemical composition and very schematically
indicate their medical use. The authors of the
medical profile, on the other hand, describe
diseases, methods of their treatment using
medicinal plants, and quite schematically
- plants, their chemical composition and
methods of obtaining medicinal products. As
for the characteristics of medicinal plant raw
materials, the peculiarities of establishing their
identity and quality, these issues are covered
mainly in regulatory documents without
comprehensive coverage of many diagnostic
characteristics of raw plant parts. There are
very few such works that would combine
a detailed description of species-specific
anatomical and morphological features of raw
materials with original illustrative material, and
for the most part they are inaccessible to the
general public, in particular to practitioners.
Therefore, the monograph “Atlas of
morphological and anatomical features of raw
materials of wild related species of medicinal
plants of Ukraine” has innovative scientific
significance and contains very valuable applied
information.
One of the important sources for the
creation of medicinal products is the medicinal
plant raw material, and the mandatory
condition for its use is its authenticity and
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appropriate quality. According to the Directive
75/318/EEC and the Law of Ukraine “On
Medicinal Products” (1996, amended on
08.08.2021), to ensure the implementation
of the state policy in the field of quality
control and safety of medicinal products,
an important component of control is the
accurate and detailed description of the raw
materials for the manufacturing of medicines.
The development of regulatory documents
for medicinal plant raw materials is based
on multi-vector research of a certain type of
plant by botanists, pharmacognostics, and
phytochemists.
Establishing diagnostic features of raw
materials of medicinal plant species is an
important condition for their introduction
into official medicine, inclusion in the
pharmacopoeia of any country, including
the State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine, as
well as further practical use in medicine,
food industry, and pharmacy. It is worth
noting that all pharmacopoeial monographs
contain a section on the identification of raw
materials with a description of the micro- and
macroscopic features of raw materials of a
specific plant species, but they do not provide
detailed characteristics of most related
species, which are often an admixture of raw
materials. Moreover, most types of official
medicine of Ukraine are distributed only in
certain regions, and in others, related species,
including invasive species, are common.
Therefore, raw materials of various related
non-pharmacopoeial species may enter
processing enterprises. Without a detailed
description of their raw materials (with
corresponding illustrations of micro- and
macroscopic diagnostic signs), it is difficult
to identify and determine the identity and
quality of medicinal plant raw materials, both
when they are collected from the natural
environment and during cultivation. The
lack of appropriate auxiliary materials, which
would simplify the process of establishing the
good quality of medicinal plant raw materials,
is accompanied by unintentional or intentional
falsification.
The problem of falsification of medicines
and raw materials has been known to mankind
for thousands of years. However, only at the
end of the 20th century, the falsification
of medicines and raw materials for their
production turned into a global problem.
For the first time, the medical community
on behalf of the World Health Organization
(WHO) drew attention to the problem of
counterfeit medicines in 1948, and in 1985 it
classified counterfeit medicines as a crime.
In Ukraine, falsified medicinal products were
first discovered in 1999. The problem of
falsification of medicines and raw materials
for their manufacture is relevant today all over
the world. Pharmaceutical production is one
of the most profitable types of business after
arms, drugs, alcohol, and gasoline trade, and
it creates the temptation to make easy money
through counterfeiting and the development
of appropriate measures for authenticity and
quality control.
Despite the growing vigilance regarding
quality control and responsibility for violation
of current requirements, which increased with
the introduction of European Union norms,
in particular GMP and GACP standards, the
issue of identification of raw materials by
morphological features and the search for
convenient methods to distinguish plant
raw materials of medicinal species from raw
materials of related species still remains open
and a solution is needed as soon as possible
for the needs of science and practice.
The reviewed work “Atlas of morphological
and anatomical features of raw materials
of wild related species of medicinal plants
of Ukraine” by a team of highly qualified
scientists: V.M. Minarchenko, I.A. Timchenko,
T.S. Dvirna, O.A. Futorna, L.M. Makhinya,
L.A. Glushchenko, which was published at
the end of 2022, contains a large volume of
extremely necessary information for solving
the problem of identifying the species of
medicinal plants and their raw materials. The
work highlights the main diagnostic macro-
and micromorphological features of raw
materials of related 63 species of medicinal
plants of Ukraine from 12 genera – Achillea,
Artemisia, Bidens, Crataegus, Equisetum,
Hypericum, Persicaria, Petasites, Plantago,
Thymus, Tussilago, Viola, which allow to
identify and distinguish plant raw materials of
medicinal plants from raw materials of closely
related species. In the monographic scientific
edition of 406 pages, in addition to a detailed
anatomical-morphological and pharmaco-
therapeutic description of each species,
photographs of diagnostic signs, made with
the help of a scanning electron microscope,
34 Plant Introduction • 99/100
Vergunov
arranged in 74 drawings are presented. Sixty
three appendices contain illustrations of
diagnostic signs of raw organs of each species,
performed using light microscopy.
To prepare the monograph “Atlas of
morphological and anatomical features
of raw materials of wild related species of
medicinal plants of Ukraine”, scientists of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the
National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of
Ukraine and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the
O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University
combined their effort and experience.
This work is an example of the successful
solution of important scientific and practical
tasks, it is significant for the improvement
of the regulatory and methodical basis for
improving the quality control of raw materials
used for the manufacture of medicinal
products of plant origin.
Currently, monographs on the raw materials
of only certain species of such genera as
Hypericum, Achillea, Bidens, Crataegus,
Equisetum, Plantago, Thymus and others have
been developed, although these genera are
represented in Ukraine by a significant number
of species, the raw materials of which can
be an impurity. The degree of research into
the quality of medicinal plants of species of
these genera differs significantly, and is often
fragmentary with the detailing of individual
characteristics
The authors of the monograph at the current
level and for the first time carried out a complex
morphological-anatomical and resource study
of 63 species of 12 genera and found the main
diagnostic macro- and micromorphological
features of raw materials of related species of
medicinal plants of Ukraine, which will allow
identification and differentiation of plant raw
materials of medicinal plant species, including
those included in the appendices of the State
Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine, from raw materials
of related species.
During the research, the authors used
their own scientific and methodological work,
the results of analysis of morphological and
anatomical features, resource assessment,
herbarium materials collected during
preliminary research on the diversity of
medicinal plants of different botanical and
geographical regions of Ukraine, samples of
raw materials from collections of living plants,
as well as herbarium materials of the National
Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). The authors have
carefully supplemented their own research
with information on the results of the latest
research by scientists from various countries
around the world.
The material of the monographic edition
is differentiated into sections, according to
the name of the genera. Species in sections
are placed in alphabetical order by Latin
name. Species names meet the modern
requirements of international nomenclature,
taking into account priority or acceptability
in Ukrainian taxonomy. In separate sections,
where the characteristics of many related
species are presented, information is briefly
provided about the characteristics of
representatives of the genus and selected
objects. For each species, the material
includes a morphological and anatomical
description with an illustration of diagnostic
features using electron microscopy (in the
text) or light microscopy (in the appendices).
Information on biologically active ingredients
and their effect on the human body is provided
by the authors based on the latest literature.
Horology, ecological and coenotic features of
the species, their resource significance and
features of the protection status (if available)
are presented both based on the results of the
creative team’s own long-term research, and
based on the analysis of the results from the
latest published information sources. The text
is accompanied by a list of references and an
index of Latin and Ukrainian species names.
The monograph “Atlas of morphological
and anatomical features of raw materials
of wild related species of medicinal plants
of Ukraine” is a complex, fundamental
work, which is significant for botanists,
pharmacognostics, phytochemists, specialists
of pharmaceutical enterprises that work with
medicinal plant raw materials, suppliers and
agronomists, specialists in the cultivation
of medicinal plants. Its content, scientific
novelty, accessibility of the presentation of the
material, illustrative support and visualization
of information, a significant volume of analyzed
information sources will undoubtedly attract
the attention of a wide range of researchers
and practitioners.
The book can also serve as a guide in the
educational process for the preparation of
students and postgraduates in biological,
pharmaceutical and agricultural areas.
Plant Introduction • 99/100 35
Review
Information on the main diagnostic macro- and
micromorphological features of raw materials
of related species of medicinal plants from the
genera Achillea, Artemisia, Bidens, Crataegus,
Equisetum, Hypericum, Persicaria, Petasites,
Plantago, Thymus, Tussilago, Viola can be
used in the preparation of new or additions
to existing monographs on medicinal plant
raw materials of the State Pharmacopoeia of
Ukraine.
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| spelling | oai:ojs2.plantintroduction.org:article-16292024-04-07T20:11:02Z Review of the book: Minarchenko V.M. et al. “Atlas of morphological and anatomical features of raw materials of wild related species of medicinal plants of Ukraine” Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» Vergunov, Viktor Review of the book: Minarchenko V.M. et al. “Atlas of morphological and anatomical features of raw materials of wild related species of medicinal plants of Ukraine” / Minarchenko V.M., Timchenko I.A., Dvirna T.S., Futorna O.A., Makhinya L.M., Glushchenko L.A. – Kyiv: Palivoda A.V., 2022. – 406 p. Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» / Мінарченко В.М., Тимченко І.А., Двірна Т.С., Футорна О.А., Махиня Л.М., Глущенко Л.А. – Київ: Паливода А.В., 2022. – 406 с. M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine 2023-11-20 Article Article application/pdf https://www.plantintroduction.org/index.php/pi/article/view/1629 10.46341/PI2023009 Plant Introduction; No 99/100 (2023); 32-35 Інтродукція Рослин; № 99/100 (2023); 32-35 2663-290X 1605-6574 10.46341/PI99-100 en https://www.plantintroduction.org/index.php/pi/article/view/1629/1546 Copyright (c) 2023 Viktor Vergunov http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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| title_full | Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» |
| title_fullStr | Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» |
| title_full_unstemmed | Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» |
| title_short | Рецензія на книгу: Мінарченко В.М. та ін. «Атлас морфолого-анатомічних ознак сировини дикорослих споріднених видів лікарських рослин України» |
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