Journal of ethnopharmacology

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.

《民族药理学杂志》是国际民族药理学学会的官方期刊。该杂志致力于根据国际公约确立的原则，交流有关人们对植物、真菌、动物、微生物和矿物质的使用及其生物和药理作用的信息和理解。 《民族药理学杂志》发表原创文章，涉及过去和现在文化中传统医学中使用的植物和动物物质的生物活性的观察和实验研究，这些文章记录了土著医学知识，研究土著药物，以便为长期发展做出贡献，致力于改善研究地区的医疗保健，并报告现有本土疗法的药理学独特原理。