{"id":7796,"date":"2023-11-14T14:15:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:16:54","slug":"new-article-analysis-of-herbal-medicine-among-bedouin-of-the-saint-catherine-protectorate-southern-sinai-peninsula-and-its-comparison-to-modern-drug-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/new-article-analysis-of-herbal-medicine-among-bedouin-of-the-saint-catherine-protectorate-southern-sinai-peninsula-and-its-comparison-to-modern-drug-design\/","title":{"rendered":"New article &#8211; Analysis of herbal medicine among Bedouin of the Saint Catherine Protectorate (southern Sinai Peninsula) and its comparison to modern drug design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABSTRACT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Saint Catherine region of southern Sinai Peninsula\u2019s drylands encompasses a unique combina-<br \/>\ntion of geophysical conditions. These features have formed highly diverse habitats, which support<br \/>\nextremely complex plant communities. Throughout history, the local Bedouin population has used<br \/>\nmany of these plants for therapeutic purposes. The objectives of this study were to document the<br \/>\nmedicinal knowledge for as many as possible plant species, evaluate this ethnobotanic knowledge<br \/>\nagainst a modern biomedical database, and identify links between the two disciplines. On-site<br \/>\ngathering of information, through structured interviews with two local key informants, revealed<br \/>\nthe traditional use of 90 native vegetation species for a range of therapeutic purposes. Surveying<br \/>\nthe modern biomedical uses of these plant species in the PubMed database revealed medicinal use<br \/>\nfor 41 of them, as well as other plant species without known traditional therapeutic uses. Of the 41<br \/>\nplant species, in-depth integration of traditional and modern knowledge was implemented for 20<br \/>\nspecies, for which sufficient information was found in the PubMed. The results highlight the<br \/>\ncommon ground between the two disciplines, and propose bridges between traditional and<br \/>\nmodern medicines. The study stresses the need for additional research in ethnobotany, which<br \/>\nmay assist in developing new plant-based medications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/27658511.2023.2278831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/27658511.2023.2278831<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT:\u00a0 The Saint Catherine region of southern Sinai Peninsula\u2019s drylands encompasses a unique combina- tion of geophysical conditions. These features have formed highly diverse habitats, which support extremely complex plant communities. Throughout history, the local Bedouin population has used many of these plants for therapeutic purposes. The objectives of this study were to document the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rivki-Ofir-2023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7799,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions\/7799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}