Historically Important Plant-Derived Drug Discoveries
1800’s – 2020
Relieveit – 2019
Derived from the
PRE.
Isolated in 2020.
Cannabis – 1940’s
Discovered in the
1940s, but not
elucidated until the
1960s
Morphine – 1870’s
Derived from the
Opium poppy plant and
isolated in the 1870s
Aspirin – 1823
Derived from the natural product , salicin – isolated from the bark of the willow tree.