| Literature DB >> 17720165 |
G Bourdy1, M L Willcox, H Ginsburg, Ph Rasoanaivo, B Graz, E Deharo.
Abstract
New treatments are urgently needed to curb and eradicate malaria in developing countries. As most people living in malarial endemic areas use traditional medicine to fight this disease, why have new treatments not emerged recently from ethnopharmacology-oriented research? The rationale and limitations of the ethnopharmacological approach are discussed in this paper, focusing on ethnopharmacology methodologies and techniques used for assessing botanical samples for their antimalarial properties. Discrepancies often observed between strong ethnopharmacological reputation and laboratory results are discussed, as well as new research perspectives.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17720165 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.07.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Parasitol ISSN： 0020-7519 Impact factor: 3.981