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F J Lipp

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PubMed1996

The efficacy, history, and politics of medicinal plants.

Herbal medicine is the oldest and most widely used form of medicine in the world today. Yet medicinal herbs that formerly were held in esteem now are commonly dismissed as placebos. This article reviews the state of plant-derived drug research and discusses the efficacy and safety of herbal medicines within the context of the contemporary political and regulatory framework. The article also explores the relationship between medicinal plant use and temporally changing disease patterns.

Complementary Therapies↗
PubMed1989

Methods for ethnopharmacological field work.

This paper describes the interdisciplinary methods used in the recording and collecting of ethnopharmacological field data. General considerations of procedure and interviewing, the collection of botanical and pharmacological specimens, procedures of data collection in field studies of medicinal plants, and the field screening of drug plants are discussed.

Ethnology↗