Plants: Ethnopharmacological Approach to Respiratory Diseases
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial agents; dereplication; halophytes; hops; natural products; phytochemistry; structural elucidation; ethnopharmacology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: ethnobotany; medical anthropology; Madagascar; traditional medicines
Special Issue Information
Dear colleague,
The emergence or re-emergence of certain respiratory diseases and their medical management, involving related disciplines, is a public health issue. The sciences of medicine and pharmacy are the first to be mobilized, but other disciplines such as ethnobotany, medical anthropology or the history of medicine can also play a leading role in understanding the problem and searching for adequate solutions. Thus, an historical analysis of the drugs that have been used so far in the treatment of respiratory diseases shows the importance of traditional herbal remedies, and if today some are sometimes falling into disuse, others can allow the discovery of new active substances. This approach, which focuses on past and current knowledge related to plants and their scientific validation, comes under ethnopharmacology. In the current context of a pandemic, the search for appropriate therapeutic solutions is imperative, and the ethnopharmacological approach is able to make a significant contribution to highlighting the pharmacological activities of certain plant remedies, and better, to isolate their active substances. This is what this special issue of the journal Plants aims to do by providing a collection of the most promising ethnopharmacological research in the field of herbal treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract (upper and lower), whether these pathologies are emerging such as SARS-CoV-2 or MERS, or older, such as influenza, tuberculosis or infections linked to rhinoviruses.
Dr. Céline Rivière
Dr. Gabriel Lefèvre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ethnopharmacology
- respiratory diseases
- traditional herbal remedies
- coronaviruses
- tuberculosis
- pneumonia
- asthma
- bronchitis
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- cold
- influenza viruses
