CONTEXT The emergence and spread of Plasmodium falciparum-resistant parasites to nearly all available antimalarial drugs pose a threat to malaria control and necessitates the need to continue the search for new effective and affordable drugs. Ethnomedicine has been shown to be a potential source of antimalarial compounds or source of template for the synthesis of novel antimalarial molecules. ...

Ethnomedicine Knowledge of Iranian Traditional Healers and the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Correspondence to: Salil Budhiraja Shiksha kunj public school, Chinnot colony, Rohtak, 124001, Haryana, India. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Ubiquitousness and increasing prevalence of dental caries makes it one of the most important problems in public health. Due to high cost and lack of resources at primary levels prevention is better in dental caries. Since the origin is related t...

this manuscript is the result of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology survey on the hezar mountain in se of iran. traditional botanical medicine is the primary mode of healthcare for most of the population of this region. the plants were collected in and around hezar mountain from 2008-2010. the authors have conducted an interview of total 75 informants; the traditional uses of 92 species belongin...

The issue of whether and how ethnomedical practitioners can be incorporated into existing biomedical systems in developing countries continues to be debated. Although a number of reasons have been advanced as to the barriers to incorporation, none of these take into account the views of nurses on incorporating ethnomedical practitioners into the biomedical system. Data from Botswana, where the ...

1 Moulay Ismail University, FST Errachidia, BP 21, 52000 Errachidia, Morocco 2 ICMR Virus Unit, Division of Ethnomedicine, ID & BG Hospital, General Block 4, 57 Dr. Suresh C. Banerjee Road, Kolkata 700 010, India 3 Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, Fisciano, 84084 Salerno, Italy 4Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kow...

Last summer we officially launched the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, published by BioMedCentral, with the aim of establishing a serious, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal that focuses on the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary fields of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, drawing on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences. The...