Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicinal botany

The medicinal botany project is to organize and expand botanical pharmaceutical research from traditional origins and modern science. Keeping a focus on safety using modern unbiased research is a goal.

This is to make it easier to document and preserve information on traditional medicines (Ayurveda, Amazonian, etc). There must be reliable documentation: it may not be feasible to document verbally passed down information unless it was reliably documented. Scientific medical papers sometimes lightly mention traditional uses, as to why rigorous scientific research was done, and this is enough for many cases. The origin of the traditional information is to be disclosed, ideally under its own section. Traditional accounts have been the catalyst for modern studies on individual plants, so for this reason traditional accounts shouldn't be readily dismissed.

Reliable modern scientific published sources are a requirement to indicate safety, as always.

This project emphasizes removal of biased insertions, and convenient assumptions for or against the idea of medicinal plant properties.

Pharmaceuticals derived from botanical sources are also of major interest for this project.

Ethnobotany, and modern science are included. Fungal and algal botanical strictly medicinal articles can be included.

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 * WikiProject Plants
 * WikiProject Medicine
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 * WikiProject Pharmacology
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