Innovative development path of ethnomedicines: an overview of ethnomedicines in China.
Front Med
; 10(2): 166-77, 2016 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27193007
ABSTRACT
In the long history of disease prevention and treatment, ancestral populations worldwide have gained knowledge and experiences in traditional medicines. For instance, ethnomedicines of Chinese ethnic minorities constitute an important part of traditional medicines. In our study, we firstly clarified the concept of ethnomedicines and the connotations of ethnopharmacology. The particularity of ethnomedicine research were then summed up, and the development profiles of the ethnomedicines of Chinese ethnic minorities were discussed by investigating the current status and existing problems. On this basis, we abstracted the innovative development path of ethnomedicines for the first time, which was found to followsresource study â standardized development research â industrialization of the achievements and efforts for internationalization. We found that platform establishment and team training are keys to achieving innovative development. Hence, this study provided a basis for ethnomedicine development.
Key words
Full text:
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Database:
MEDLINE
Traditional Medicines:
Medicinas_tradicionales_de_asia
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Medicina_china
Therapeutic Methods and Therapies TCIM:
Terapias_biologicas
Main subject:
Research
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Drugs, Chinese Herbal
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Medicine, Traditional
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Front Med
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China