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New insights into the composition of historical remedies and pharmaceutical formulations: the identification of natural resins and balsams by gas chr…

2020

AbstractThe present paper reports one of the first studies on the identification of natural resins and balsams in modern era drug formulations. Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was applied to investigate the composition of ancient remedies and pharmaceutical formulations coming from the Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala in Rome, founded at the end of the seventeenth century by the Discalced Carmelites. The obtained results highlight the presence of complex mixtures containing resinaceous and lipidic-based compounds. Thanks to the detection of characteristic markers, it was possible to identify several natural resins, such as guaiacum resin, ladano resin and scamm…

HistòriaArcheologyEngineeringSpezieria of Santa Maria della Scala in RomeBalsamsPolymer sciencebusiness.industryRestes de plantes (Arqueologia)010401 analytical chemistryNatural organic compounds01 natural sciencesMass spectrometricDrug formulations0104 chemical sciences010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistryHistorical drugsAnthropologyIdentification (biology)GC-MSbusinessComposition (language)ResinsSettore CHIM/12 - Chimica dell'Ambiente e dei Beni CulturaliBalsams; GC-MS; Historical drugs; Natural organic compounds; Resins; Spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala in Rome;Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
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