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Traditional Medicine

Traditional medicine is the body of knowledge, skills, and practices grounded in the theories, beliefs, and experiences of different cultures that are used to maintain health and to prevent, diagnose, and treat physical and mental illness. Its therapeutic repertoire centres on medicinal plants and their phytochemica…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 107× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Traditional medicine is the body of knowledge, skills, and practices grounded in the theories, beliefs, and experiences of different cultures that are used to maintain health and to prevent, diagnose, and treat physical and mental illness. Its therapeutic repertoire centres on medicinal plants and their phytochemical constituents, alongside mineral and animal-derived preparations, dietary measures, and manual or spiritual techniques transmitted across generations. Distinct systems such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and regional ethnomedical practices each apply their own diagnostic frameworks and pharmacopoeias, yet share a reliance on complex multi-component remedies rather than single isolated molecules. Contemporary research in this area seeks to characterise the phytochemistry, antioxidant capacity, and pharmacological mechanisms of these preparations, and increasingly applies network pharmacology to predict molecular targets of plant-derived compounds. Investigations span the ethnobotanical documentation of medicinal plants and their traditional uses, the influence of extraction method and pH on bioactive yield, patterns of self-medication and herbal-care preference among patient populations, and the reformulation of classical preparations using nanomedicinal approaches. The discipline matters because traditional remedies remain a primary source of care for much of the world's population and constitute a reservoir of candidate compounds for drug discovery. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research examining the composition, safety, and therapeutic application of these practices.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Medicinal Plants and their Traditional Uses

Keskin CumaliCorresponding author
Mardin Artuklu University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health, 47100 Mardin, Turkey.
Exact topic Advances in Plant Biology Cited by 47 doi:10.14302/issn.2638-4469.japb-18-2423
2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 107 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices.

Journal editorial board
Akiko Tokinobu · Japan Ulrike Halsband · Germany Bruno Bordoni · Italy

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