Talk:Ethnomedicine

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

message: 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)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: "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)
thread_title:  Spelling error 

message: I'm working on compiling a list of plants used as herbs and/or spices (plus some information about them)... it could use a lot more entries than I have the knowledge or spoons to add.  It's currently here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Table_of_plants_used_as_herbs_or_spices .  Additions would be appreciated.  Tamtrible (talk) 22:42, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , this already exists: List_of_plants_used_in_herbalism there's also geographic specific articles such as: List of medicinal plants of the American West, as well as a List of culinary herbs and spices, etc. It seems you may be duplicating work that has already been done. Netherzone (talk) 00:50, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Further, Tamtrible, your multiple postings of this material to every medicinal-plant-related article's talk page you can think of is becoming frankly disruptive, and it's a clear abuse of talk pages, which are only for discussion of their own articles. So, please, stop; also for the good reason that Netherzone has given, your putative article is misguided and will not work here on Wikipedia. Maybe some other website will be able to accommodate your wishes. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:39, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help...