Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives
Tuley De Silva, "et al." Editors DAYA PUBLISHING HOUSE
TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Research and Policy Perspectives
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TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Research and Policy Perspectives
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Tuley De Silva Theeshan Bahorun Manoranjan Sahu Le Mai Huong
CENTRE FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY OF THE NON-ALIGNED AND OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (NAM S&T CENTRE) 2009
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Foreword
This publication which contains the proceedings of the international workshop on Herbal Medicinal Plants and Traditional Herbal Remedies is a timely one because of the growing interest in herbal medicine. It has been thoughtful on the part of the NAM S&T Centre, New Delhi and the Institute of Natural Products Chemistry, Vietnam to have organized jointly this important workshop. It is now clear that to achieve the goal of "Health for All" we have to promote a blend of tradition medicine and modern drugs. Unfortunately much of the knowledge on traditional medicine is getting lost and we can ill afford to remain silent spectators of genetic erosion among medicinal plants. Both dying wisdom and vanishing crops must be saved. This is why the World Health Organisation gave the slogan "save medicinal plants to save lives".
The Herbal Drug Industry is growing. Unfortunately in many cases, there is an expansion in the manufacture of drugs without concurrent efforts in improving the production of the needed medicinal plants. This leads to many of the important medicinal plants getting included in the Red Data books of conservation organizations. Immediate steps are needed to achieve a paradigm shift in raw material supply to drug companies, from collection to cultivation. This volume contains many useful papers written by leading authorities on the subject. I hope that this kind of interaction will foster greater south-south collaboration in the area of conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits from the herbal wealth of developing nations. We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Dr. P. Pushpangadan, for this labour of love. Prof. (Dr.) M.S. Swaminathan
Member afParliament and Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India
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Preface
Plant resources have provided the basic needs of