About this Research Topic
While World No Tobacco Day 2023 may primarily focus on raising awareness about the dangers of tobacco use and the tobacco industry, it also provides a unique opportunity for ethnopharmacology researchers to present their work on various medical topics.
From the treatment of dermatological conditions to the ethnopharmacology of respiratory or cardiovascular diseases, tobacco plays a critical role in traditional remedies from around the world.
The most commonly known tobacco species are native to the Americas; Indigenous cultures of this region highly esteem the plant for its spiritual and medicinal significance and, long before the colonial arrival (and thus first European contact with the plant), have been applying tobacco for ritual and healing purposes, in stark contrast with the recreational uses later developed and marketed by the transnational tobacco industry.
This Research Topic invites researchers to present their work on clinical studies, pharmacokinetics, and public health, alongside as the safety and composition of traditional medicines. In addition, researchers are invited to discuss the interface between food and medicine and the importance of nutrition in ethnopharmacology. Further themes may include Indigenous uses of tobacco (contemporary and historical); tobacco as a psychoactive; alkaloids in tobacco other than nicotine; the role of the tobacco industry in the development of harmful tobacco uses; or tobacco and transculturation; etc.
All the manuscripts submitted to the collection will need to fully comply with the Four Pillars of Best Practice in Ethnopharmacology (you can freely download the full version here).). We also expect that the MS follow the standards established in the ConPhyMP statement Front. Pharmacol. 13:953205.
From the treatment of dermatological conditions to the ethnopharmacology of respiratory or cardiovascular diseases, tobacco plays a critical role in traditional remedies from around the world.
The most commonly known tobacco species are native to the Americas; Indigenous cultures of this region highly esteem the plant for its spiritual and medicinal significance and, long before the colonial arrival (and thus first European contact with the plant), have been applying tobacco for ritual and healing purposes, in stark contrast with the recreational uses later developed and marketed by the transnational tobacco industry.
This Research Topic invites researchers to present their work on clinical studies, pharmacokinetics, and public health, alongside as the safety and composition of traditional medicines. In addition, researchers are invited to discuss the interface between food and medicine and the importance of nutrition in ethnopharmacology. Further themes may include Indigenous uses of tobacco (contemporary and historical); tobacco as a psychoactive; alkaloids in tobacco other than nicotine; the role of the tobacco industry in the development of harmful tobacco uses; or tobacco and transculturation; etc.
All the manuscripts submitted to the collection will need to fully comply with the Four Pillars of Best Practice in Ethnopharmacology (you can freely download the full version here).). We also expect that the MS follow the standards established in the ConPhyMP statement Front. Pharmacol. 13:953205.
Keywords: smoking, tobacco use, non-smoking, herbal medicine
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