Ownership and Sustainability Issues of Botanical Medicines

摘要: The World Health Organization estimates that more than 70% of the world’s population, especially those who reside in tropics, rely almost exclusively on plants as a primary source medicines. Over last decades an awareness has grown pharmacological potential medicinal plants, and potentially bright future for drugs developed from natural products. At same time, use medical practice contributes to growing threat species ecosystem preservation. This paper expands narrow view sources pharmaceutical development discuss botanical medicine economic human perspective. I consider strategies can ensure benefits accrue utilization indigenous plant knowledge become positive forces development. Issues sustainability are discussed vis poverty, protection ecosystems, longterm viability species. ownership also presented context intellectual property rights, with particular reference inadequacy patent rights protect knowledge.