Traditional medicines and globalization: current and future perspectives in ethnopharmacology

The ethnopharmacological approach towards the understanding and appraisal of traditional and herbal medicines is characterized by the inclusions of the social as well as the natural sciences. Anthropological field-observations describing the local use of nature-derived medicines are the basis for et...

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Main Author: Marco eLeonti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphar.2013.00092/full