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[...]... revealed which plants 4 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives and what parts to eat as medicines, the optimal conditions for harvesting them and established a background for modern science to develop new drugs We have to go back in history to the time of the great Pharaoh herbalist Imhotep to find the real medicinal plants used at that time and to the surviving papyrus... data for product development 8 Traditional and Alternative Medicme: Research and Policy Perspectives • Low technical know-how and equipments • Poor yields arising from inefficient processing As a result of the foregoing, each of the many hundreds of medicinal plant fractions used in traditional medicine has an associated traditional processing procedure According to Bensky and Gamble (1993), processing... been so grossly 12 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives neglected in many developing countries such that R&D efforts remain perpetually at the level of basic research with very little commercial value since such findings can not translate to industrial products Further, the absence of commercialized research results stifle research as revolving research fund can not... HIV / AIDS: Dopravil® and Conavil® on which phase II clinical trials are being conducted (AACHRD,2002) • Research on evaluation of herbal preparations for the management of HIV / AIDS in some countries such as Burkina Faso, has reported a weight gain of up to 20 kilograms in some patients within four months of treatrrient 6 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives Blood... Metabolism and Therapeutic Efficacy of Medicinal Plants P Pushpangadan and Varughese George 3 17 3 Medicinal Plantsrrraditional Medicine and IPR Protection P Pushpangadan and Varughese George 25 4 Regulation of Herbal Healthcare Products Tuley De Silva 35 5 Traditional Medicine in the Developing and Developed Countries and Expected Trends in Future Tuley De Silva 57 xiv Part 11: Phytochemistry 6 New and Interesting... 1998), and working with plant cells facilitates the second techniqueemploying stressors to coax plants to produce chemicals they would not ordinarily 10 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives produce in the wild, or if they are picked at the wrong time Thus before constituent chemicals are extracted, plants are sometimes, baked, frozen, injected with hormones and subjected... the Heads and senior experts from the Institutes of Natural Products Chemistry, Chemistry, Ecology and Biological Resources, and Biotechnology and Department of Planning and Finance of VAST; Military Academy of Medicine; Academy of Traditional Medicine Pharmacy; National Institute of Malaginology, Parasitology and Entomology; Institute of Medicinal Materials; National University of Hanoi and Universities... s on the quality of the raw materia l The 14 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives ance must be materia l must therefo re be of good quality and its industr ial perform raw materia l must be of certain basic microbiological high In additio n to this, the es, can also purity Test for contam inants such as microb es, metals, and pesticid to compa re an extract with others... A, Chandra, A, 2002 Herbs in the modern healthcare environment- An overview of uses, legalities, and the role of the healthcare profeSSional Clin Res Regulatory Affairs (USA), (19); pp 83-107 16 Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research a1ld Policy Perspectives Huang, S et al., 1995 Inhibition of the integrase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 by anti-HIV plant proteins MAP30 and GAP31... Systems in Bioprospecting and Product Development in South Africa: A Policy, Research, Development and Innovation Perspective Hlupheka Chabalala 521 53 Indonesia Country Report on Herbal Medicinal Plants and Traditional Herbs Remedies AdrianaMarthiany Lubis 532 xviii 54 Some Frontline Medicinal Plants of Kashmir Himalaya Used in Unani Medicine: Present Status and Role Tariq Ahmad Butt and M.K Siddiqui 540 . alt="" TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Research and Policy Perspectives "This page is Intentionally Left Blank" TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE. book " ;Traditional and Alternative Medicine: Research and Policy Perspectives& quot; prominently encompasses the importance of traditional medicine