Journal of Ethnopharmacology

期刊简介：The Journal of Ethnopharmacology is dedicated to the exchange of information and understandings about people's use of plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms and minerals and their biological and pharmacological effects based on the principles established through international conventions. Early people confronted with illness and disease, discovered a wealth of useful therapeutic agents in the plant and animal kingdoms. The empirical knowledge of these medicinal substances and their toxic potential was passed on by oral tradition and sometimes recorded in herbals and other texts on materia medica. Many valuable drugs of today (e.g., atropine, ephedrine, tubocurarine, digoxin, reserpine) came into use through the study of indigenous remedies. Chemists continue to use plant-derived drugs (e.g., morphine, taxol, physostigmine, quinidine, emetine) as prototypes in their attempts to develop more effective and less toxic medicinals.

【译文】《民族药理学杂志》致力于通过国际公约确立的原则，交流关于人们使用植物、真菌、动物、微生物和矿物及其生物学和药理学作用的信息和理解。早期的人们面对疾病和疾病时，在植物和动物王国中发现了大量的有用治疗剂。这些药用物质的实证知识和它们的毒性潜力通过口头传统传递，有时记录在草药和其他药物学文本中。今天许多有价值的药物（例如，阿托品、麻黄碱、筒箭毒碱、洋地黄毒苷、利血平）是通过研究土著疗法而开始使用的。化学家继续使用植物衍生的药物（例如，吗啡、紫杉醇、毒扁豆碱、奎宁、吐根碱）作为他们试图开发更有效和毒性更低的药物的原型。