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Literature / Source Database:
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Description
an interdisciplinary journal devoted to bioscientific research on indigenous drugs
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J. Ethnopharmacol. |
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JOETD7 |
| Languages |
English |
| First year |
1979 |
| Impact factor |
3.055 |
| Editor |
R. Verpoorte |
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active
Subject
Source type
Journal
Publisher
ISBN ISSN
0378-8741
E ISSN
1872-7573
First volume
1
Last volume
143+
Publish city
Shannon
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free access |
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for subscriber |
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not available |
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Description
The Journal of Ethnopharmacology is dedicated to the exchange of information and understandings about people's use of plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms and minerals and their biological and pharmacological effects based on the principles established through international conventions. Early people confronted with illness and disease, discovered a wealth of useful therapeutic agents in the plant and animal kingdoms. The empirical knowledge of these medicinal substances and their toxic potential was passed on by oral tradition and sometimes recorded in herbals and other texts on materia medica. Many valuable drugs of today (e.g., atropine, ephedrine, tubocurarine, digoxin, reserpine) came into use through the study of indigenous remedies. Chemists continue to use plant-derived drugs (e.g., morphine, taxol, physostigmine, quinidine, emetine) as prototypes in their attempts to develop more effective and less toxic medicinals.
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