Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery Book

	Introduction: therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine	1
1	Drugs from Nature: past achievements, future prospects	23
2	Natural products for high-throughput screening	39
3	Medical ethnobotanical research as a method to identify bioactive plants to treat infectious diseases	45
4	Development of HerbMed: an interactive, evidence-based herbal database	55
5	Natural products: a continuing source of inspiration for the medicinal chemist	61
6	Integrating African ethnomedicine into primary healthcare: a framework for South-eastern Nigeria	71
7	Current initiatives in the protection of indigenous and local community knowledge: problems, concepts and lessons for the future	81
8	Bioprospecting: using Africa's genetic resources as a new basis for economic development and regional cooperation	103
9	Balancing conservation with utilization: restoring populations of commercially valuable medicinal herbs in forests and agroforests	117
10	Ethnomedicine of the Cherokee: historical and current applications	125
11	Traditional medicines and the new paradigm of psychotropic drug action	133
12	Drug discovery through ethnobotany in Nigeria: some results	145
13	Plants, products and people: Southern African perspectives	155
14	Development of antimalarial agents and drugs for parasitic infections based on leads from traditional medicine: the Walter Reed experience	163
15	Health foods in anti-aging therapy: reducers of physiological decline and degenerative diseases	173
16	Indigenous peoples and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles: definitions under Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity	181
17	Garcinia kola: a new look at an old adaptogenic agent	191
18	Linking intellectual property rights with traditional medicine	201
19	The use of conservation trust funds for sharing financial benefits in bioprospecting projects	211
20	The regulation of botanicals as drugs and dietary supplements in Europe	241
21	Regulation of herbal medicines in Nigeria: the role of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)	249
22	Considerations in the development of public standards for botanicals and their dosage forms	259
23	The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize	267
24	Ethnobotanical research into the 21st century	283
25	Ethnobotanical approach to pharmaceutical drug discovery: strengths and limitations	309
	Contributors	321
	Subject Index	325