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Endangered Traditional Medical Plant
by Ishimwe Eric Josue \| 19-05-2018 18:45 0
Most of today's medicines and drugs are traditionally based healing techniques and medicines. Those traditional medicines were mainly explored from different plant species with traditional medical specialists and doctors. Traditional healing techniques and drugs started from Eastern Countries mostly famous in China (late Former Jin Dynasty), Korea (late Former Goryeo Kingdom), And so on. Thou, African countries were not famous in traditional healing techniques and drugs, but they were also traditionally healing techniques and drugs dependent during that time. Unlike European countries, all those countries that employed those traditional healing techniques and drugs were blessed with diverse healing plants which favored them to do so. As time goes on, the industrial revolutions changed the image of medical system worldwide by modernizing traditional systems and adding improved features. Western countries inverted biodiversity based medical system which changed usual medical plant based system and later on integrated biodiversity and plant medical system. Those changes reduced people's concern on the healing plants which brought most healing plant species to their exit. The population increase, housing facilities, technological advancement, land competition of agribusiness activities are the centered causes of the rising issue of those plants' exit. There are various consequences for only depending on biodiversity healing system as most of them left chronological or long-term syndromes unlike plant based. Today, most of the healing medicines are found in tropical rain forests such as Amazon in South America, and Tropical rain forest in center Africa. Countries like China took first step of maintaining traditional healing techniques, and drugs by protecting the source and offering traditional medical based education. African countries need to deploy the same policies as technological advancement and population growth take another pace.

Dormant user Ishimwe Eric Josue

8 Comments

Rosa Domingos says :
Hi Ishimwe!

Its true that due to the rapid rise in medial advancement, traditional medicine (plants) have been over-exploited...only to be at ends meet to extinction.

Thank you, lovely report!
Posted 31-05-2018 07:13

Ishimwe Eric Josue says :
Hello Joon Ho, Thanks for providing reference for further clarifications regarding international use of traditional plants and rights. Regarding historical events and the countries I used for case study, is the fact that I learnt a lot about them not only for this subject matter but also their histories, languages and cultures :)

Thank you all for your reviews on this subject :)
Posted 23-05-2018 18:04

Joon Ho Mentor says :
Hello Ishimwe, concerning the international use of traditional medical plants and rights to use them in proper ways are all covered in Nagoya Protocol. Please take a look at the former revisions and drafts, so you may get more sources about this issue as well.
And about historical events, I was really surprised to see my nation in old past up there!
How could you get to know various countries and its historical record using traditional medical plants?! :)
Hope this report also made a chance for you to think of this issue very well, too!
Thanks for the nice report :)

Posted 22-05-2018 01:33

says :
In my country, some old people still prefer the Traditional Medical Plant and those pure Traditional healing that doesn't even involved any form of medication but chanting and magicians. It is such a controversial topic on the modern and traditional medicine. Though I think people should use modern medication practice, I think there should be a protection to the traditional medication as a form of culture preserving.
Posted 21-05-2018 16:22

Dyah Reza Lestari says :
Good report.
Posted 21-05-2018 00:36

Gyeongrin mentor says :
Hello Ishimwe
It is ironic that we actually benefit from the environment and the next day we drive them in to destruction. Hope more countries could deploy good laws to protect medical plants from disappearing!
Thanks for the report!
Posted 21-05-2018 00:27