Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery

by Iwu, Maurice M.; Wootton, Jacqueline C.

• ISBN13: 9780444508522
• ISBN10: 044450852X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

First volume in this series covers topics such as: drugs from nature, natural products for high-throughput screening, ethnomedicine of the Cherokee, drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria, bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources, and more. DNLM: Ethnobotany.

Table of Contents

Introduction: therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine	1	(22)
Maurice M Iwu
Drugs from nature: past achievements, future prospects	23	(16)
Gordon M Cragg
David J Newman
Natural products for high-throughput screening	39	(6)
Alan L Harvey
Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases	45	(10)
Thomas JS Carlson
Development of HerbMed®: an interactive, evidence-based herbal database	55	(6)
Jacqueline C Wootton
Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist	61	(10)
S Mbua Ngale Efange
Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare: a framework for South-eastern Nigeria	71	(10)
Chioma Obijiofor
Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge: problems, concepts and lessons for the future	81	(22)
Robert Lettington
Bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation	103	(14)
Anthony Onugu
Balancing conservation with utilization: restoring populations of commercially valuable herbs in forests and agroforests	117	(8)
Richard A Cech
Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee: historical and current applications	125	(8)
Jody E Noe
Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action	133	(12)
Elaine Elisabetsky
Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria: some results	145	(10)
Joseph I Okogun
Plants, products and people: Southern African perspectives	155	(8)
Nigel Gericke
Development of antimalarial agents and drugs for parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine: the Walter Reed experience	163	(10)
Brian G Schuster
Health foods in anti-aging therapy: reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases	173	(8)
Lisa Meserole
Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles: definitions under Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity	181	(10)
Katy Moran
Garcinia kola: a new look at an old adaptogenic agent	191	(10)
Maurice M Iwu
Angela Duncan Diop
Lisa Meserole
Chris O Okunji
Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine	201	(10)
Michael A Gollin
The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects	211	(30)
Marianne Guerin-McManus
Kent C Nnadozie
Sarah A Laird
The regulation of botanicals as drugs and dietary supplements in Europe	241	(8)
Joerg Gruenwald
Regulation of herbal medicines in Nigeria: the role of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)	249	(10)
Gabriel E Osuide
Considerations in the development of public standards for botanicals and their dosage forms	259	(8)
V Srini Srinivasan
The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize	267	(16)
Michael J Balick
Rosita Arvigo
Gregory Shropshire
Jay Walker
David Campbell
Leopoldo Romero
Ethnobotanical research into the 21st century	283	(26)
Susan Tarka Nelson-Harrison
Steven R King
Charles Limbach
Carey Jackson
Andrew Galiwango
Sirimani Kisingi Kato
BR Kanyerezi
Ethnobotanical approach to pharmaceutical drug discovery: strengths and limitations	309	(12)
Maurice M Iwu
Contributors	321	(4)
Subject Index	325