, a devoted natural products chemist. She is on the national committee that regulates herbal medicines, and has joined advisers to the Government on the emerging “bio-economy”.
Both have typically broad folk reputations in Wyse Jackson’s litany of uses. Leaves of bogbean, Menyanthes trifoliata, contain a bitter compound “used widely in medicine as a tonic and to bring down fevers” but also for several ills of livestock, among them the cure of “pine” in Co Mayo’s cattle and sheep.
Ethna knew bog myrtle’s domestic use as a fragrant herb for the linen press to keep moths out of blankets. In our beer-making days, drawing on Belgian tradition, we also tried it as a flavouring in place of hops. We were left unimpressed, at least avoiding the “particularly bad hangovers” specified in Wyse Jackson.
Set against the crude context of herbal folk medicine, the work of the NatPro scientists speaks for a singularly energised approach to the discovery of “natural products”. Along with molecules isolated from land plants and seaweeds, the search is for medicinally useful activity in the bacteria of Irish soils and waters.There’s new impact also in the frankly commercial ambition of NatPro.
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