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Asian Medicinal Plants’ Production and Utilization Potentials: A Review
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Medicinal plants research in Asia continues to receive significant national and international attention, particularly concerning its multiple roles in poverty alleviation and health care support. However, scientific information on the institutional arrangements, the potentials of different medicinal plants production systems, and the utilization methods, remain highly fragmented. This incomprehensive information base shades the development of a comprehensive research agenda to improve the current body of knowledge, at least in the context of Asia. To address this impasse and propose future research perspectives, we systematically reviewed 247 journal articles, 15 institutional reports, and 28 book chapters. From the reviews, five key lessons are drawn: (i) Asian medicinal plant production systems demonstrate some dynamics, characterized by a gradual but continuous shift from wild gathering to cultivation, (ii) sub-regional variations exist with regards to the appreciation of medicinal plants potentials for traditional healing, modern healthcare, and livelihoods support, (iii) knowledge on the effect of multi-scale institutional arrangements (formal and informal) on medicinal plant management practices is fragmented, (iv) very few studies dwell on the challenges of medicinal plants commercialization, particularly with regards to the role of middlemen, boom–bust cycle, raw material readiness, and product quality, and (v) law enforcement, benefit and knowledge sharing, and research and development should be prioritized to serve the interest of medicinal plants production actors. To further extend the body of knowledge on medicinal plants in Asia, we advance the need for empirical investigations on the performance of medicinal plants production systems and their contribution to livelihoods in diverse institutional contexts.
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“Even though the Ayurvedic and Siddha TSMs were codified more than 3,000 years ago, they represent the codification, and thus institutionalisation, of practices communities had been testing, designing, and using for thousands of years before that, passing the information down through oral tradition just like folk medicine (Shukla & Gardner 2006, Astutik et al. 2019).”
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“With 'more than seventy percent of the population in the developing world' and 'more than eighty percent of the population of South Asia' using medicinal plants for maintaining and improving health, India is an example of a country that has a widely used folk system of medicinal knowledge (Shukla & Gardner 2006;Astutik, Pretzsch & Ndzifon Kimengsi 2019).”
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“To respond to the challenge of the use and conservation of medicinal plants, a natural resource, Indian communities developed three designs.Communities developed traditional systems of medicine (TSMs) that codified medical plant knowledge in texts or ancient scriptures (Ayurvedic, Siddha, etc.).Communities also developed folk medicine in which knowledge is learned by doing and passed down through”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Astutik, S., Pretzsch, J., & Ndzifon Kimengsi, J.
- Affiliations
- Indonesian Institute of Sciences (ID)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, 01735 Tharandt, Germany
- Corresponding author
- Astutik, Sri
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-10-03
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 5483
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2977853263
- Cited by
- 207
- References
- 272
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- en
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- Funders
- Kementerian Riset Teknologi Dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia (8245-ID)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- medicinal plants, cultivation, traditional healing, intermediaries, boom-bust cycles, raw material quality, institutional arrangements, livelihoods, poverty reduction, Asia
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