Book
English
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Abstract
The origin of traditional pharmacopoeias The development of pharmacopoeias The medicinal products of the 21st century how have knowledge of therapeutic knowledge been transmitted across different cultures? This innovative book, which brings together the work presented at the 4th European Congress of EthnoPharmacology, brings to the forefront the sources of therapeutic knowledge. While written pharmacopoeia are a landmark in the history of major learned medicine, other ways of accessing knowledge seem to exist in the chamanic universe of societies of oral tradition as well as in the way sick animals are cared for by plants. The assessment of the pharmaco-toxicological and chemical properties of plants for traditional use should also encourage the future development of herbal medicinal products, one of the key issues addressed in this work. But the aim of this book is also to generate new research topics around the world in the field of drug pre-history and understanding of knowledge acquisition and transmission. The development of non-toxic phytomedics for humans and animals is also one of the major challenges of the future.