Ethnomedicine and drug discovery / [edited by] Maurice M. Iwu, Jacqueline C Wootton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iwu, Maurice M.

Wootton, Jacqueline C.

Series:

Advances in phytomedicine series ; 1.

Advances in phytomedicine ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacognosy.

Ethnobotany.

Medicinal plants.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Medicine, Traditional.

Herbal Medicine.

Plants, Medicinal.

Medical Subjects:

Ethnobotany.

Medicine, Traditional.

Herbal Medicine.

Plants, Medicinal.

Physical Description:

xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine / Maurice M Iwu 1

1. Drugs from nature: past achievements, future prospects / Gordon M Cragg, David J Newman 23

2. Natural products for high-throughput screening / Alan L Harvey 39

3. Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases / Thomas JS Carlson 45

4. Development of HerbMed: an interactive, evidence-based herbal database / Jacqueline C Wootton 55

5. Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist / S Mbua Ngale Efange 61

6. Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare: a framework for South-eastern Nigeria / Chioma Obijiofor 71

7. Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge: problems, concepts and lessons for the future / Robert Lettington 81

8. Bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation / Anthony Onugu 103

9. Balancing conservation with utilization: restoring populations of commercially valuable medicinal herbs in forests and agroforests / Richard A Cech 117

10. Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee: historical and current applications / Jody E Noe 125

11. Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action / Elaine Elisabetsky 133

12. Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria: some results / Joseph I Okogun 145

13. Plants, products and people: Southern African perspectives / Nigel Gericke 155

14. Development of antimalarial agents and drugs for parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine: the Walter Reed experience / Brian G Schuster 163

15. Health foods in anti-aging therapy: reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases / Lisa Meserole 173

16. Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles: definitions under Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity / Katy Moran 181

17. Garcinia kola: a new look at an old adaptogenic agent / Maurice M Iwu, Angela Duncan Diop, Lisa Meserole, Chris O Okunji 191

18. Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine / Michael A Gollin 201

19. The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects / Marianne Guerin-McManus, Kent C Nnadozie, Sarah A Laird 211

20. The regulation of botanicals as drugs and dietary supplements in Europe / Joerg Gruenwald 241

21. Regulation of herbal medicines in Nigeria: the role of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) / Gabriel E Osuide 249

22. Considerations in the development of public standards for botanicals and their dosage forms / V Srini Srinivasan 259

23. The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize / Michael J Balick, Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire, Jay Walker, David Campbell, Leopoldo Romero 267

24. Ethnobotanical research into the 21st century / Susan Tarka Nelson-Harrison, Steven R King, Charles Limbach, Carey Jackson, Andrew Galiwango, Sirimani Kisingi Kato, BR Kanyerezi 283

25. Ethnobotanical approach to pharmaceutical drug discovery: strengths and limitations / Maurice M Iwu 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

044450852X

OCLC:

48390561