Past and future contributions to traditional medicine in the health care system of the Middle-East
Past and future contributions
to traditional
medicine in the
health care system
of the Middle-East
Source
Faculty of Pharmacy,
Yeditepe University, 34755 Istanbul, Turkey. yesilada@yeditepe.edu.tr
Abstract
Due to the rich cultural
heritage and relatively rich flora, a wealth of knowledge on traditional and folk medicine has been accumulated in the
Middle-East. However, except Turkey, the number of ethnobotanical field studies
is few and mainly focused on Unani medicine, which is practised widespread in the southern
communities. Urgent scientific field surveys should be conducted among the
native people in order to document the wealth of knowledge on folk medicine, other than Unani medicine, before it will be lost by the
erosive effects of modernization.
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