Substandard traditional patent medicines may lead to global safety-related issues. Protecting consumers from the health risks associated with the integrity and authenticity of herbal preparations is of great concern. Of particular concern is quality control for traditional patent medicines. Here, we establish an effective approach for verifying the biological composition of traditional patent m...

Tradition Medicines as the name implies have been a cultural age long healing remedy practiced over the year and improved by casual and unformulated experiments, or in some case are totally forgotten with the passing away of the partition in cases where record have not been kept especially skin and bone related cancers with the use of traditional herbal formula and cultural approaches that need...

This paper brings out the importance of creating domestic legislative structures that seek to protect traditional medicine and associated traditional knowledge (TK) in Zimbabwe. Traditional medicines are important to Zimbabwe’s primary health care system, with an estimated 80% of the country’s population relying on traditional herbal therapies. However, there are various challenges that are ass...

Traditional medicine and medicinal plants, in general, continue to be a powerful source of new drugs, now contributing about 90% of the newly discovered pharmaceuticals. Traditional medicine continues to provide health coverage for over 80% of the world population, especially in the developing world. The past and the present are all full of living examples of discoveries of drugs, ranging from ...

As pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups increasingly recognize the biomedical and economic potential of indigenous medicines from tropical rainforests, romanticized stereotypes of rainforest medicines as inherently beneficial abound. These ideas fail to take into consideration the question of why those living in the rainforest need medicines, and whether or not “traditional” medicin...

Members Ahti Anttila, Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Liisankatu 21 B, 00170 Helsinki, Finland Ramesh V. Bhat, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Jamai-Osmania PO, Hyderabad-500 007 AP, India James A. Bond, Chemico-Biological Interactions, Toxcon, 5505 Frenchmans Creek, Durham, NC 27713, USA Susan J. Borgh...