Medicinal Plants: Their Role in Health and Biodiversity

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1998

Medicinal Plants

Their Role in Health and Biodiversity

Edited by: Timothy R. Tomlinson and Olayiwola Akerele

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292633

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About this book

From the beginning of human civilization, people have depended on plants to cure disease, promote healing of injuries, and alleviate pain. In many places that has changed very little. In the West, however, herbal and botanical cures have long been ignored in favor of "scientific medicine." But the benefits of medicinal plants are being rediscovered in many developed countries, where consumers are turning to such therapies in place of, and in addition to, Western medical treatments. And, all over the world, the drive to lower the cost of health care has made herbals and botanicals an attractive alternative to more expensive synthetic remedies.

In 1978, the World Health Organization responded to increased interest in medicinal plants by convening a series of international consultations, seminars, and symposia to explore and promote the use of medicinal plants. Medicinal Plants presents the proceedings of the last of these symposia, held in 1993. It brings together an vast range of information and presents an overview of the use of medicinal plants that includes a discussion of a variety of issues—scientific, economic, regulatory, agricultural, cultural—focused on the importance of medicinal plants to primary health care and global health care reform.

Author / Editor information

Timothy R. Tomlinson is former Associate Director of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. Olayiwolda Akerele is former manager of the Traditional Medicine Programme of the World Health Organization.

Reviews

"This volume contains useful information from a wide range of subdisciplines of phytomedicine in one place. It is. . . . a real contribution to the growing need for academically acceptable information on herbal medicine."—Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface: Promoting the Worldwide Use of Medicinal Plants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Medicinal Plants, Scientific Progress, and Development
1. A Case History of Plant-Derived Drug Research: Phyllanthus and Hepatitis B Virus Baruch S. Blumberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. An Expanded Program for Medicinal Plants Olayiwola Akerele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Medicinal Plants in the Socioeconomic Context
3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way? Nathan Sivin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
4. Safety, Efficacy, and the Use of Medicinal Plants Norman R. Farnsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
5. Economics and Medicinal Plants Peter P. Principe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
6. The Medicinal Plant Marketplace Robert S. McCaleb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Conservation: Issues and Future Prospects
7. Linking Ethnopharmacology and Tropical Forest: Conservation in Belize Michael J. Balick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
8. Exploitation of Medicinal Plants Akhtar Husain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
9. Agronomics and Medicinal Plants Dan Palevitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
10. The Role of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Traditional Medicine: A Personal Reflection and Case Study William McKinley Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants
11. The Legal Situation of Phytomedicines in Germany Barbara Steinhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
12. Indonesia: The Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care Djoko Hargono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
13. Ethnopharmacological Surveys in Brazilian Extractive Reserves Elaine Elisabetsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
14. Traditional Korean Medicine Chong-Yul Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
15. Utilization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants in China with Special Reference to Atractylodes lancea Shan-An He Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
16. Medicinal Plants in the Philippines Nelia P. Cortes-Maramba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
17. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the United States Ara H. DerMarderosian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Regulatory Issues
18. Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines within the European Community Hubertus Cranz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
19. The Evolving Status of Herbals and Phytomedicines in the United States Robert G. Pinco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Appendixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 44 illus.
Keywords: Biology; Natural History; History of Science; Health; Medicine; Caregiving

eBook

Published: June 30, 2015
ISBN: 9780812292633