ethnopharmacologyn.
/ˌɛθnəʊˌfɑːməˈkɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˌfɑrməˈkɑlədʒi/ The traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning medicinal substances (esp. of plant, but also of animal and mineral, origin); the use of such a substance in traditional medicine; the branch of pharmacology that deals with this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > pharmacology > branches of
posology1786
pharmacodynamics1836
pharmacognosia1842
pharmacognostics1858
psychopharmacology1920
neuropharmacology1949
pharmacokinetics1959
pharmacogenetics1960
biopharmaceutics1961
radiopharmacology1966
ethnopharmacology1967
1967 Psychopharmacol. Bull. Dec. 2/1 The most fascinating part of ethnopharmacology is perhaps the one dealing with man's use of intoxicating compounds.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 72 548/1 The editors..define ethnopharmacology as a ‘multidisciplinary area of research, concerned with the observation, description, and experimental investigation of indigenous drugs and their biological activities’.
1990 Bioactive Compounds from Plants: Ciba Found. Symp. 9 Cox has been studying the ethnopharmacology of Samoans.
2006 N. L. Etkin Edible Med. 97 The remainder of this chapter moves beyond catalogues and constituents to suggest novel approaches to the ethnopharmacology of spices.
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ˌethnopharmaˈcologist n. an expert in or student of ethnopharmacology.
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1978 Science 17 Mar. 1184/1 Andrew Weil, a physician and Harvard-affiliated ethnopharmacologist, thinks that if the Indians in South America benefit from chewing coca leaves, so might we.
1992 Independent 17 Feb. 18 Shamen plans to plough some of the profits back to the indigenous people who are an important source of knowledge for ethnopharmacologists.
2003 J.-P. Chamont et al. in M. Rai & D. Mares Plant-derived Antimycotics xv. 373 The role of the ethnopharmacologist is to demonstrate the bioactivity of natural and well-known drugs with scientific tests and proofs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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