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As we learn more about what the indigenous people mean by this term, it will fall into one of the two categories that are underrepresented in your classification. I think indigenous peoples are using more plants for those categories than we are able to discern at this time. The ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery 39 Cox: The Jivaro may have the same problem-wondering where to place what you call central nervous system and cardiovascular disease. As an ethnobotanist, I regard both indigenous and Western disease states as equally real.
Withering landed a large fish of tremendous importance, digitalis, while it remains to be seen if my fish, prostratin, will be useful at all. Yet both of us fished the same waters-indigenous knowledge systems-after having first received a fishing permit-the cooperation of indigenous healers. 4. Uses of drugs in the US pharmacopoeia, classified according to the treatment categories of Goodman & Gilman (Gilman et a1 1991). GI, gastrointestinal; Ob/Gyn, obstetric and gynaecological. ) Bioassays might be considered as our hooks and lures, for it would be impossible to catch a fish without them.
Indigenous plant remedies are focused more on gastrointestinal (GI) complaints, inflammation, dermatological ailments and obstetric/gynaecologicaldisorders, while the main uses of Western drugs are to treat cardiovascular or nervous system disorders and neoplasms or as antimicrobial remedies. We believe our sample of indigenous uses to be robust; in only three disease categories do the NAPRALERT data (Farnsworth 1990) differ by over three percentage points from our indigenous data, while both data sets agree on the distinctive difference between indigenous and Western remedies.