ISSN 2326-7267
International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology ISSN: 2326-7267 Vol. 3 (5), pp. 001-004, May, 2012. © International Scholars Journals
Review
Review on the importance of documenting ethnopharmacological information on medicinal plants
Berhanemeskel Weldegerima
School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar. P. O. Box 196, Ethiopia. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. Tel: +251912024213.
Accepted 14 January, 2012
Abstract
This paper reviews and discusses the importance of documenting ethnopharmacological information on medicinal plants. The literature review was done by collecting relevant information from journal articles, workshop proceedings, books and electronic resources. The review sums up the importance of documenting the indigenous traditional knowledge on medicinal plants as being a vehicle for; (i) preserving cultural heritage, (ii) ethnopharmacological bases of drug research and (ii) preserving of biological diversity.
Key words: Ethnopharmacology, indigenous knowledge, medicinal plants, biological and diversity.