The Dialectics of Knowledge In the Use of Medicinal Plants
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knowledge, traditional medicine, medicinal plantsAbstract
The relation between popular knowledge and scientific knowledge in the use of medicinal plants can be understood from the dialectical point of view, which foresees the transformation and evolution of ideas. Popular knowledge, on one hand, is associated with magical and religious practices; this leads to questions that attempt to give a more rational understanding to the therapeutic method; scientific knowledge, on the other hand, establishes a rational relation between the use of medicinal plants and the healing of diseases. The synthesis of these two points of view is achieved when researchers, seeking new sources of biologically active substances, approach the population to conduct ethnobotanical surveys followed laboratory research.
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