JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

《民族药理学杂志》以国际公约确立的原则为基础，致力于交流关于人们使用植物、真菌、动物、微生物和矿物质及其生物和药理作用的信息和了解。早期的人们面对疾病和疾病，在动植物王国发现了大量有用的治疗剂。这些药物的经验知识和它们的毒性潜力是通过口头传统，有时记录在草药和其他本草文献。当今许多有价值的药物(如阿托品、麻黄素、阿波克拉林、地高辛、利血平)是通过研究当地的治疗方法而开始使用的。化学家们继续使用植物性药物(如吗啡、紫杉醇、绒猴碱、奎尼丁、依米汀)作为原型，试图开发出更有效、毒性更小的药物。近年来，保护地方知识、促进初级卫生保健中的土著医疗系统和保护生物多样性已成为所有在社会科学和自然科学交界工作的科学家，特别是民族药理学家更加关心的问题。民族药理学家认识到国家对其自然资源的主权权利，特别关注地方人民进一步利用和开发其本土资源的权利。因此，今天的民族药理学研究包括以下多学科的努力:?本土医学知识文档，?对本土药物进行科学研究，以便长期为研究区域的卫生保健改善做出贡献?从现有的本土药物中寻找独特的药理原理。《民族药理学杂志》发表了关于过去和现在传统医学中使用的植物和动物物质的生物活性观察和实验研究的原始文章。该杂志将特别欢迎跨学科的论文与民族药理学，民族植物学或民族化学方法的土著药物的研究。人类学和民族植物学领域的研究报告属于该杂志的范围。特别欢迎涉及药理和毒理作用机制的研究。如果有助于了解特定的民族药理学问题，将考虑临床疗效研究。杂志欢迎在上述领域的评论文章，特别是那些强调多学科的民族药理学性质。评论只接受邀请。

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.In recent years the preservation of local knowledge, the promotion of indigenous medical systems in primary health care, and the conservation of biodiversity have become even more of a concern to all scientists working at the interface of social and natural sciences but especially to ethnopharmacologists. Recognizing the sovereign rights of States over their natural resources, ethnopharmacologists are particularly concerned with local people's rights to further use and develop their autochthonous resources.Accordingly, today's ethnopharmacological research embraces the multidisciplinary effort in the:? documentation of indigenous medical knowledge,? scientific study of indigenous medicines in order to contribute in the long-run to improved health care in the regions of study, as well as? search for pharmacologically unique principles from existing indigenous remedies.The Journal of Ethnopharmacology publishes original articles concerned with the observation and experimental investigation of the biological activities of plant and animal substances used in the traditional medicine of past and present cultures. The journal will particularly welcome interdisciplinary papers with an ethnopharmacological, an ethnobotanical or an ethnochemical approach to the study of indigenous drugs. Reports of anthropological and ethnobotanical field studies fall within the journal's scope. Studies involving pharmacological and toxicological mechanisms of action are especially welcome. Clinical studies on efficacy will be considered if contributing to the understanding of specific ethnopharmacological problems. The journal welcomes review articles in the above mentioned fields especially those highlighting the multi-disciplinary nature of ethnopharmacology. Commentaries are by invitation only.