The proposed WikiProject was not created. Housekeeping. ( non-admin closure) – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 18:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC) reply
The medicinal botany taskforce is to organize and expand botanical pharmaceutical/medical research from traditional origins and modern science.
This is to make it easier to document and preserve information on traditional medicines (Ayurveda, Amazonian, etc). There must be reliable documentation: it may not be feasible to document verbally passed down information unless it was reliably documented. Scientific medical papers sometimes lightly mention traditional uses, as to why rigorous scientific research was done, and this is adequate for many cases. The origin of the traditional information is to be disclosed, ideally under its own section. Traditional accounts have been the catalyst for modern studies on individual plants, so for this reason traditional accounts shouldn't be readily dismissed.
Reliable unbiased modern scientific published sources are a requirement to indicate safety, as always.
This project emphasizes removal of biased insertions, and convenient assumptions for or against the idea of medicinal plant properties.
Pharmaceuticals derived from botanical sources are also of major interest for this project. The idea for development of many modern medicines originated from traditional uses or knowledge of certain plants.
Ethnobotany, and modern science are included. Fungal and algal botanical strictly medicinal articles can be included. - Sidelight 12 Talk 05:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC) reply
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
Original description and reasons:
Main concern (other than the fact that this project was launched without waiting for approval here) is the fact that this proposal seems to be proposing that we do original research. Which, for obvious reasons, won't fly. Guettarda ( talk) 15:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC) reply
The proposed WikiProject was not created. Housekeeping. ( non-admin closure) – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 18:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC) reply
The medicinal botany taskforce is to organize and expand botanical pharmaceutical/medical research from traditional origins and modern science.
This is to make it easier to document and preserve information on traditional medicines (Ayurveda, Amazonian, etc). There must be reliable documentation: it may not be feasible to document verbally passed down information unless it was reliably documented. Scientific medical papers sometimes lightly mention traditional uses, as to why rigorous scientific research was done, and this is adequate for many cases. The origin of the traditional information is to be disclosed, ideally under its own section. Traditional accounts have been the catalyst for modern studies on individual plants, so for this reason traditional accounts shouldn't be readily dismissed.
Reliable unbiased modern scientific published sources are a requirement to indicate safety, as always.
This project emphasizes removal of biased insertions, and convenient assumptions for or against the idea of medicinal plant properties.
Pharmaceuticals derived from botanical sources are also of major interest for this project. The idea for development of many modern medicines originated from traditional uses or knowledge of certain plants.
Ethnobotany, and modern science are included. Fungal and algal botanical strictly medicinal articles can be included. - Sidelight 12 Talk 05:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC) reply
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
Original description and reasons:
Main concern (other than the fact that this project was launched without waiting for approval here) is the fact that this proposal seems to be proposing that we do original research. Which, for obvious reasons, won't fly. Guettarda ( talk) 15:13, 1 February 2013 (UTC) reply