SFE – India: globalizing local knowledge and localiz-Ing global technologies
- Vol.53(7), July
- Mumbai Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Science 2021
- 33- 38p.
Ancient people threatened with several ailments that take quest to look forward to discover a wealth of useful therapeutic agents in the plant and animal. Ethnopharmacology is a multidisciplinary approach, where the medicinal use of plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms, and minerals explored and practiced by varied cultures of the human for their wellness. The knowledge of these medicinally active substances and their toxic potential was passed on by oral tradition and sometimes recorded in other texts. Ethnopharmacology is a multidisciplinary field comprising several aspects of newer drug development taking leads from nature mostly herbs and other natural products. This path was enlightened by our ancestors.