Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin

Traditional knowledge is the accumulative knowledge that has been passed on since the beginning of time. It was recorded in various forms and formally in materia medica. Each ancient civilisations possessed its own materia medica; from east, Ancient China has Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Indian...

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Main Author: Julenah Ag Nuddin
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 2016
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16463/
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description Traditional knowledge is the accumulative knowledge that has been passed on since the beginning of time. It was recorded in various forms and formally in materia medica. Each ancient civilisations possessed its own materia medica; from east, Ancient China has Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Indians, their Ayurveda while the Greeks, Greek Medicine and several others. Both similarities and differences in materia medica are information which becomes valuable source in drug discovery. In combination with advanced and sophisticated tools, drug discovery programme aims to produce the wonder drugs for the betterment of humankind. However, in search of the magic bullet, we should not let haste and greed allow us to disregard materia medica as our heritage to be passed on.
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spelling uitm-164632019-05-14T08:21:55Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16463/ Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin borneoakademika Julenah Ag Nuddin Traditional knowledge is the accumulative knowledge that has been passed on since the beginning of time. It was recorded in various forms and formally in materia medica. Each ancient civilisations possessed its own materia medica; from east, Ancient China has Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Indians, their Ayurveda while the Greeks, Greek Medicine and several others. Both similarities and differences in materia medica are information which becomes valuable source in drug discovery. In combination with advanced and sophisticated tools, drug discovery programme aims to produce the wonder drugs for the betterment of humankind. However, in search of the magic bullet, we should not let haste and greed allow us to disregard materia medica as our heritage to be passed on. Universiti Teknologi MARA Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16463/1/AJ_JULENAH%20AG%20NUDDIN%20BA%2016.pdf Julenah Ag Nuddin (2016) Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin. (2016) Borneo Akademika <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Borneo_Akademika.html>, 1 (2). pp. 12-22. ISSN 2462-1641
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Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title_full Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title_fullStr Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title_full_unstemmed Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title_short Materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / Julenah Ag Nuddin
title_sort materia medica of traditional knowledge: from east to west and beyond / julenah ag nuddin
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16463/