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Potential Role of Ethnobotanists
Work with communities to document healing knowledge
Bridge traditional and allopathic medicine
[Help create health manuals for physicians and communities]
Establish partnerships between universities, clinics/hospitals, museums, botanical gardens and communities
Conduct scientific-based research on safety and efficacy of traditional medicines
Help develop and ensure adherence to all local and international standards on access and benefit sharing, intellectual property relating to traditional knowledge
Notes:
Ethnobotanists can be influential in working with communities to document traditional healing knowledge
-they can be a bridge between traditional and allopathic medicine in urban environments
-they can create health manuals listing safe and efficacious plants that can be used for physicians treating specific populations and by communities
-ethnobotanists can establish partnerships and collaborations b/w universities, clinics/hospitals, botanical gardens, and communities
- And they can conduct scientific-based studies that continue to evaluate plant medicines for efficacy and safety