本綜說簡述台灣藥學界及其他各界(不含化學界)之天然物研究至1985年止之總展,總共收集290篇研究報告,有270種植物,1種動物及1種微生物代謝之成分被研究介紹,在這些研究報告當中共發現並決定136個新化合物。
The results of natural product research of the field of pharmaceutics and others (other than the field of chemistry) in Taiwan were described in this review and 290 research papers (until 1985) were collected. The review introduced the studies of chemical constituents of 270 maybe species of plants, one species of animal and one species of secmetablite ondary of fungus, from which 136 kinds of new compounds were isolated and elucidated.