Modernization of traditional drugs of ethnic minorities in Vietnam
- Author:
Khanh Cong Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Traditional medicine
- MeSH:
Published studies of different species of the branch Crinum, amaryllidaceae
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1999;282(10):3-6
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In the Vietnam medicine and pharmacy system, parallel to the western medicine, the oriental medicine Vietnamese traditional medicine plays an important role in people's health care. The oriental medicine consists of two components: The first one is the official traditional medicine that its origin mainly comes from the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the second one is local hereditary medicine of the ancient Vietnamese people and the ethnic minorities. The local hereditary medicine has a great potentiality but it is faced to a risk of loss. It should be officially recognized and institutionalized. Moreover, it should be funded to study, and step by step modernize for conservation and development.
