Talk:Ethnomedicine

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Ethnomedicine practices are becoming a rising new trend in urban areas. With the migration of individuals from diverse geographical locations, metropolitan cities are starting to see a sudden increase in the amount of traditional healing clinics. For example, New York City has a large population of Dominican healers. These healers migrated to the United States bringing their native traditions and healing processes with them. Their healing processes generally consist of botanical therapies, herbal remedies and native ethomedical knowledge. As the Dominican community increases in population within New York City, there is a greater desire for natural medicine, one limitation to their ability to prescribe treatment is the accessibility to plants. Some of these plants that are not locally grown and therefore are imported or the plants can only be found in dried form (Reiff, 2003: 12-26).

Mamcdonald1 (talk) 21:13, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

In the Pacific Islands, anthropologist study the traditional use of local and native plants for healing purposes. Plants in the Pacific Islands are a vital form of food, fiber, dye and other building materials (Lee, 2001: 28-30).

In today’s modern world and in Western society, ancestral practices are often seen as part of the past, with such an increase in the use of technology, traditional ways of life are becoming extinct. Ancestral knowledge is orally being passed down to future generations, yet these young individuals are entering the global economy and leaving their traditional practices behind. The preservation of their knowledge is something that should be dispersed among pharmaceutical clinics to reduce environmental impacts on the physical environment. By using natural remedies humans are able to minimize the use of artificial chemicals, unnatural stimulants and our dependence on prescribed drugs, making our treatments more effective. Mamcdonald1 (talk) 01:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

The has been some interest in the use of snakes for enthomedicine use. Any further knowledge in their usage?Mamcdonald1 (talk) 00:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

There are many different places where Ethnomedicine is practiced such as in New York City where large groups of Dominican traditional healers study therapies for various health problems within the city. Mamcdonald1 (talk) 19:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

is that bit about dogs and grass really necessary on an ethnomedicine page? isn't that really just a mention of animal forms of medicine? actually, on second glance, that whole last sentence is unnecessary and is treating "ethnomedicine" as a simple synonym for "medicine" in its practiced form. ill remove it. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Crazyfatcat:

You are totally wrong with your judgement. The protagonist of the film is a Dr. in neurology and psychiatry who converted to Shamanismis because he is convinced, that the southamerican shamanistic way of healing is much better than western schoolmedicine.

The film shows how to make Ajahuasca and describes the principals af the shamanistic way of healing. On a very high level and very competent. The protagonist of the film is the only shaman who can do it on this level at the moment. For Alan Shoemaker he his the most spiritual Healer at this days.

The film was shown on Festival Psy, specialized on showing new films about mental illness and ways of curing. Also the Filmfestival "Tage des Ethnologischen Films" specialized on ethnology films screende the film very sucessful about three times, because it´s a new sight on the subject, taking Ethnomedizine very serios.

It´s definitly NOT a film just about dogs and grass.

Please remove the film. And if you don´t belive me, just watch the film and make a decision afterwards.

regards, Crazyfatcat — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.240.9 (talk) 11:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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I think this article has a lot of potential! I know there are some links provided to visit other related areas of ethnomedicine, but perhaps you could actually write a little bit about these topics on the actual ethnomedicine page. It might help people to have a slight idea of what those links are about before branching out. You might also consider mentioning where ethnomedicine is used and perhaps discussing some of the opinions held pertaining to ethnomedicine by members of the anthropological and biological community. You could talk about its effectiveness, or perceived effectiveness, as well as why or why not it is effective

BestCjdow (talk) 15:11, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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I think this article could be a lot more interesting. More information is needed, some topics that branch out of the basics with some examples too. This is a really interesting topic but there could definitely be more done with it. More citations would probably be a good idea as well. [[[User:Mkbertram|Mkbertram]] (talk) 23:50, 19 March 2012 (UTC)]

Merging

Perhaps it would make more sense if all articles that have to do with traditional medicine practice were in one places. IS there really a need for a separate ethnopharmacy and ethnomedicine articles? Especially when the former is a stub with no sources? 88.114.154.216 (talk) 19:05, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Agree. Have marked the ethnopharmacology article accordingly. LT90001 (talk) 13:00, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Ethnopharmacology is a subcategory of ethnomedicine. Ethnopharmacology is about drugs, while ethnomedicine could include topics besides drugs. E.g. culture-bound syndromes, shamanic healing rituals, some forms of surgery (e.g. trepanation), massage, acupuncture, steam baths, specialized diets (though the distinction between food & drugs is murky at times). It seems fine to merge the stub, but if content is expanded, ethnopharmacology could be split back out. Plantdrew (talk) 17:06, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Peer Review

Hello!

In reading over this article I found that there could be an increase in sections and credible/reliable sources added. I found there to be a lack of information as a whole and more research or additional information could greatly benefit this article.

In the heading "Practices in Urban Areas" the last sentence may need to be broken up into two different sentences and revised. In the heading "Anthropological Perspectives" the sentence that beginnings with "In today's modern world..." could use some revision to clearify your point. Also, please remember to cite any information that you did not state yourself. There seems to be a lack of citations particularly in the "Anthropological Perspectives" section!

All in all, keep editing and revising this article with more credible and reliable information. Try adding more sectons and subheadings in regards to the topic. Keep up the great work!

Caboothby (talk) 16:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC)caboothby

P.S. Don't forget to link words that don't necessarily apply to your article to other Wikipedia pages. Caboothby (talk) 16:46, 20 November 2012 (UTC)caboothby

Spelling error

"Ethopharmacology" redirects here, but it should be "Ethnopharmacology". There seems little sense in having redirects from relatively rare misspellings. 109.157.79.50 (talk) 23:00, 19 January 2015 (UTC)