Role of traditional knowledge in the COVID‐19 battle

Ola, Kunle

doi:10.1111/jwip.12220

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“…The use of plants and other natural products have been used as medicine since ancient times [1]. The World Health Organization reported that around 75% of the world's population uses herbs as part of their healthcare needs [2]. Current advances in drug discovery and development utilizes natural products as direct source of therapeutic agents, used as starting material to develop semisynthetic drugs, and as chemical basis to design novel molecules [3].…”

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Artocarpus Camansi Blanco: A Review on Its Traditional Use, Nutritional Value, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology

Bicaldo¹

2022

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Artocarpus camansi Blanco or breadnut (Family: Moraceae) is primarily found in tropical regions of the world. Different parts of the plant provide potential use in medicine, nutraceutical development, and livelihood. The present review attempts to document literature on the traditional use, nutritional value, phytochemistry, and pharmacological investigation carried out with breadnuts. The included literatures of the plant were collected from various sources and databases like Google scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Crossref, and Scopus. Breadnuts are rich in secondary metabolites. Studies have reported the isolation of several triterpenoid compounds and the broad spectrum of its pharmacological activities such as antidiabetic, antimalarial, antioxidant, anti-tumor, antibacterial, and immunomodulatory properties. The approximate composition of the seed and the fruit also highlights the nutritional importance of this plant. A. camansi Blanco is an underutilized tree that holds significant potential if further research and sustainable conservation is applied. Efforts to mainstream its use as functional food and increase awareness among the locals should also be given attention.

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Artocarpus Camansi Blanco: A Review on Its Traditional Use, Nutritional Value, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology

Bicaldo¹

2022

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“…People cannot buy CMHs for preventing and curing COVID-19 [9]. CMHs are still the mainstay for about 75 to 80% of the world's population-especially in developing countries-for primary health care with better cultural acceptability, better compatibility with the human body, and reduced side effects [10]. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released the "WHO Expert Evaluation Meeting on Chinese Medicine Treatment of COVID-19" under the relevant section of its official website, which affirmed CMHs' safety and effectiveness.…”

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Establishment of a Sustainable Management Model for Chinese Herbal Garden in an Urban City—Hong Kong

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Au²,

Chow³

et al. 2022

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Chinese medicinal herbs (CMHs) have been used for thousands of years because of their significant properties regarding the prevention and treatment of diseases, such as COVID-19. There is an increasingly diminishing supply of wild medicinal resources, and the demand is greater than the supply. Ecological balance and the conservation of natural Chinese medicinal herbs are serious issues in sustainable development, which requires the minimum requirements to be met without compromising the resources of future generations, especially with respect to the maintenance of production and consumption as well as the quality control of CMHs. Hong Kong is an urban business city, busy with work and the fast pace of life. The sustainable development of CMHs is difficult in a huge population situated in an area with very scarce land coverage. The conservation of CMHs in urban horticulture is extremely neglected because people lack living space; for example, Aquilaria Sinensis (the incense tree), also called “pak muk heung” in Cantonese, was an indigenous species that was illegally logged in the past. This led to detrimental effects on the population density and genetic diversity of the species. There is no doubt that Hong Kong is required to set up a management model in community facilities for these emerging modern social configurations, such as building a Chinese herbal garden for the conservation and promotion of a healthy urban environment and giving people a chance to gain more information on CMHs. The current study employed problem analysis and strategic decisions for the sustainable development of 62 kinds of CMHs in a Chinese herbal garden, which converged with some medicinal itineraries of Lingnan herbal medications, and implemented a theoretical framework of management models for ten secondary schools, e.g., the Aroma garden of the L’Occitane at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) Tsing Yi campus and Land from the Far East Consortium International Limited in Sai Kung Pak Kong. In the present original article, we would like to establish a sustainable management model for Chinese herbal gardens in an urban city. The sustainable development model for the Chinese herbal gardens is based on five major aspects: (1) land resources, (2) manpower planning, (3) economy, (4) education or training, and (5) ecosystem (cultivation). These are the essential factors of management and are implemented in our Chinese herbal gardens. We aim to find a suitable management model for Chinese herbal gardens and to promote it in other urban cities.

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