کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2577722 1129959 2014 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Ethnopharmacology: quo vadis? Challenges for the future
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک دانش گیاه شناسی
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Ethnopharmacology: quo vadis? Challenges for the future
چکیده انگلیسی

It is well-known that humans have used medicinal plants for millennia, but as a defined field of scientific research called ethnopharmacology, it has a relatively short history. It is linked to the development of pharmacology in the 19th century (as exemplified in the work of Claude Bernard linking the explorers’ observations on traditional uses of medicines and toxins) and to fascination with psychoactive drugs in the 1960s. This fascination gave rise to what we now call ethnopharmacology, a term first used as recently as 1967. With thousands of ethnopharmacological articles published each year now, the field has expanded greatly. It nowadays covers a wide range of topics based on the anthropological, historical and other socio-cultural studies of local and traditional plants, fungi and animals; as well as the biological and clinical studies of resources used as medicines, toxins, foods, among other applications. It is one of the few fields in science truly transdisciplinary and it is a key bridge between socio-cultural and the natural/medical sciences. More importantly, ethnopharmacological research is crucial for the improvement of livelihood, health and wellbeing of humans.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia - Volume 24, Issue 2, March–April 2014, Pages 99–102
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