ABSTRACT
Ethnopharmacology is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the traditional therapeutic use of natural bioactive products. This area was first defined as “the interdisciplinary scientific exploration of active biological agents traditionally employed or observed by man” (Holmsted and Bruhn 1983). The term “ethnopharmacology” is an amalgam of the Greek word ethnos (culture), pharmakos (drug or medicine), and logia (the study of). On this basis, ethnopharmacology is considered as the study of drugs that have been traditionally used to treat ailments.
