Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery

Introduction, M. Iwu; drugs from nature - past achievements, future prospects, G. Cragg, D.J. Newman; natural products for high throughput screening, A.L. Harvey; medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases, T.J.S. Carlson; development of Herbmedr, an interactive, evidence-based herbal database, J. Wootton; natural products - a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist, S. Mbua Ngale Efange; integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare - a framework for South-Eastern Nigeria, Chioma Obijiofor; current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge - problems, concepts and lessons for the future, R. Lettington; bioprospecting - using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation, A. Onugu; balancing conservation with utilization - restoring populations of commercially valuable medicinal herbs in forests and agroforests, R.A. Cech; ethnomedicine of the Cherokee - historical and current applications, J. Jo; traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action, E. Elisabetsky; drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria - some results, J.I. Okogun; plants, products and people - Southern African perspectives, N. Gericke; development of antimalarial agents and drugs from parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine - the Walter Reed experience, B.G. Schuster; health foods in anti-aging therapy - reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases, L. Meserole; indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles. (Part Contents). definitions under article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (K. Moran). 17. Garcinia kola a new look at an old adaptogenic agent (M.M. Iwu, A. Duncan Diop, L. Meserole, C.O. Okunji). 18. Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine (M.A. Gollin). 19. The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects (M. Guerin-McManus, K.C. Nnadozie, S.A. Laird).