Outline
- Historical Review of Traditional Medicine (TM)/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
- TM Practices (an overview)
- Transformation of Herbal Medicine (HM) Practice in Ghana
Ethnopharmacy
Ethnopharmacy is defined as the interdisciplinary science that investigates the perception and use of traditional pharmaceuticals in a given human society.
Scope
It involves studies of;
- the identification and classification (ethnotaxonomy) of the natural material from which the natural remedy will be produced
- Traditional preparations of the pharmaceutical forms (ethnopharmaceutics)
- Biological evaluation of the pharmacological action of the preparations (ethnopharmacology)
- Clinical efficacy of such preparations (Clinical ethnopharmacy)
Objectives
- Trace the history of the use of traditional medicine (TM)
- Define terms commonly associated with TM
- Know how and when to collect plants for medicinal use and their preparations
- Explore some social consequences of the use of medicinal plants
- Some common plants that are used as medicines
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