The South West corner of the Botanic Garden is home to a modern medicinal plant collection. Here you will find 8 beds each growing plants with a connection to a medicine used to treat a particular type of disease or illness. There are beds for

• Cardiology (heart complaints)
• Oncology (cancer and cell-proliferation)
• Infectious Diseases (viral and parasitic)
• Gastreoenterology (alimentary tract and metabolism)
• Dermatology (skin complaints)
• Haematology (blood typing and disorders)
• Neurology (nervous system and anaesthesia)
• Pulmonology (lungs and airways)

The plants growing in these beds contain many different natural products and fall into at least one of the following three categories:

• Directly suitable for use as a drug
• Synthetic modification provides a clinically suitable drug
• Starting point for a drug discovery programme

If you would like to read more about these plants you might like to purchase the book written to accompany this plant collection.