Dr Hans Wohlmuth BSc(Macq) PhD(SCU) is a pharmacognosist and Senior Research Fellow with Southern Cross Plant Science. He leads a research group focused on plant compounds for wound healing, a project that is part of the Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre. Other research interests include authentication of herbal raw materials and the quality and safety of herbal medicinal products. Hans is the Curator of the Southern Cross University's Medicinal Plant Herbarium (PHARM) and a co-founder of the University’s Herbal Authentication Service. He also serves on the Therapeutics Goods Administration's statutory Advisory Committee on Complementary Medicines and is a member of the Queensland Ministerial Advisory Panel for Higher Education. He has taught pharmacognosy, herbal and complementary medicine for two decades, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Journal articles
Pilidiostigmin, a novel bioactive dimeric acylphloroglucinol derivative isolated from Pilidiostigma glabrum (with Qingyao Shou, Hans Sun, Linda K. Banbury, Eleanore H. Lambley, Dane Renshaw, Christian Griesinger, and Hans J. Griesser), Tetrahedron Letters (2013)
Pilidiostigmin, a novel dimeric acylphloroglucinol derivative, was isolated from the leaves of the Australian plant...
Biologically active dibenzofurans from Pilidiostigma glabrum, an endemic Australian myrtaceae (with Qing-Yao Shou, Linda K. Banbury, Dane Renshaw, Eleanore Lambley, Htwe Mon, Graham A. Macfarlane, Hans J. Griesser, and Michael Heinrich), Journal of Natural Products (2012)
In an effort to identify new anti-inflammatory and antibacterial agents with potential application in wound...
Chemical composition and antioxidant and anticandidal activities of essential oils from different wild moroccan thymus species (with Chaima Alaoui Jamali, Leila El Bouzidi, Khalid Bekkouche, Hassani Lahcen, Mohammed Markouk, David N. Leach, and Abdelaziz Abbad), Chemistry & Biodiversity (2012)
Samples of the aerial parts of Thymus broussonetii, T. ciliatus, T. leptobotrys, T. maroccanus, T....
Chemical constituents from Fritillaria anhuiensis (with Qingyao Shou, X He, Lei Liu, and Zhengwu Shen), Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (2012)
Phytochemical investigation on Fritillaria anhuiensis led to the isolation of one new labdane diterpenoid (12)...
Essential oil composition and antimicrobial activity of wild and cultivated mint timija (Mentha suaveolens subsp. timija (Briq.) Harley), an endemic and threatened medicinal species in Morocco (with A Kasrati, C Alaoui Jamali, K Bekkouche, H Lahcen, M Markouk, David N. Leach, and A Abbad), Natural Product Research (2012)
The hydro-distilled essential oils obtained from aerial parts of the wild (w) and cultivated (c)...
Books
Phytochemistry and pharmacology of plants from the ginger family, Zingiberaceae (PhD thesis) (2008)
This thesis reports on a series of investigations into the phytochemistry and pharmacology of plants...
Plants and plant form: an illustrated guide (with Lexanne Leach), Plants and plant form: an illustrated guide (2001)
Pharmacognosy and medicinal plant pharmacology: a student manual, Southern Cross Plant Science research papers (1997)
Book chapters
A review of reviews of the benefits of naturopathy and western herbal medicine (with Stephen P. Myers, Alan Bensoussan, Joan O'Connor, Peta-Anne Paul-Brent, Don G. Baker, and Phillip A. Cheras), The practice and regulatory requirements of naturopathy and western herbal medicine (2005)
Allergic reactions to herbal medicines (with Stephen P. Myers), The essential guide to herbal medicine safety (2005)
Conference publications
Factors affecting pharmacists' recommendations of CMs: a qualitative pilot study of Australian pharmacists (with Sarah E. Culverhouse), Complementary medicines: evidence of change: Complementary Healthcare Council National Conference (2012)
Safety evaluation of licorice consumption from dietary and phytotherapeutic sources (with P Medeiros, R Lee, Don J. Brushett, and Jacinta M. Arellano), 59th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (2011)
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabraL.) contains the triterpenoid glycoside glycyrrhizic acid (GA), which has an intensely sweet...
Genomics and metabolomics for new plant products (with Daniel LE Waters, Peter C. Bundock, Myrna A. Deseo, Lei Liu, Frances M. Shapter, and Agnelo Furtado), From passion to profit: New Rural Industries Australia Conference (2010)
Reports, presentations etc.
A simple HPLC method for detecting adulteration of ginkgo extracts with flavonol glycosides (with Kate Savage, Ashley Dowell, and Peter Mouatt), 13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology (2012)