Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology

Palestinian ethnomedicine: Wide traditional knowledge with significant future medicinal research opportunities

5^th International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacology and Ethnopharmacology

March 23-25, 2017 Orlando, USA

Abdullatif Azab

Institute of Applied Research-The Galilee Society, Israel

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Exp Pharmacol

Abstract:

Plants are used by humans for therapeutic purposes, since the very dawn of our kind. Traditional Palestinian society has an extraordinary traditional herbal medicine that utilizes the relatively large diversity of plants in our region. And yet, despite the fact that the use of medicinal plants is well known and sometimes recorded for centuries, it is interesting enough that some of these plants were very partially or never studied in modern scientific methods. This is mainly to say, that despite proven medicinal activities of these plants, for some of them, the chemical composition is completely or partially unknown, and medical tests were never performed to transfer these proven qualities from traditional knowledge to modern medicine. Moreover, some of the plants that were never or partially studied are widely used in traditional Palestinian folk medicine and even as edible plants. Based on this knowledge, our presentation will focus on these plants that provide great future opportunities of research in ethnomedical knowledge, new phytochemicals and natural products, drug discovery and development, pharmacokinetics and finally, synthetic organic chemistry in terms of preparing new analogues of active compounds. We will introduce selected plants that have proven traditional uses, describe these uses in Palestinian folk medicine, and present the current modern research situation of each plant. Special attention will be drawn to plants that are widely used on daily bases, and that are widespread and can be easily reached for future research.

Biography :

Email: abedazab@gal-soc.org