Hedberg I
Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala, Sweden.
J Ethnopharmacol. 1993 Mar;38(2-3):121-8. doi: 10.1016/0378-8741(93)90006-q.
An imperative demand imposed on all scientific investigations is that they should be repeatable, which calls for adequate documentation from the very beginning. In medicinal plant research, botanical documentation plays a vital role since without correctly identified material and properly documented voucher specimens the results are at best suspect and at worst useless. The botanical contributions required for ethnopharmacological research thus include adequate naming of the material and deposition of properly labelled voucher specimens in at least two public herbaria. Ethnopharmacology depends, however, upon botanical assistance also in another respect, viz. concerning conservation. This field may seem to have little to do with ethnopharmacology, but without joint efforts to save the useful plants from extinction, ethnopharmacology will lose important parts of its main source at an appalling rate.
对所有科学研究的一个迫切要求是它们应该是可重复的，这就要求从一开始就有充分的记录。在药用植物研究中，植物学记录起着至关重要的作用，因为没有正确鉴定的材料和妥善记录的凭证标本，结果充其量是可疑的，最坏的情况是毫无用处。因此，民族药理学研究所需的植物学贡献包括对材料进行充分命名，并在至少两个公共标本馆中存放妥善标记的凭证标本。然而，民族药理学在另一个方面也依赖于植物学的帮助，即关于保护。这个领域可能似乎与民族药理学关系不大，但如果不共同努力拯救有用植物免于灭绝，民族药理学将以惊人的速度失去其主要来源的重要部分。
