Review on the importance of documenting ethnopharmacological information on medicinal plants.

Abstract

This paper reviews and discusses the importance of documenting ethnopharmacological information on medicinal plants. The literature review was done by collecting relevant information from journal articles, workshop proceedings, books and electronic resources.  The review sums up the importance of documenting the indigenous traditional knowledge on medicinal plants as being a vehicle for; (i) preserving cultural heritage, (ii) ethnopharmacological bases of drug research and (ii) preserving of biological diversity.   Key words: Ethnopharmacology, indigenous knowledge, medicinal plants, biological and diversity.