鄂西民族用药品种研究概况

首次介绍了近20年来对鄂西民族药的品种、资源、生药鉴定、化学、药理、临床及新药开发的研究概况.对药用品种的应用与开发提出了建议：加强对重点品种的深入研究及其逐步推广应用;重视临床研究与新药开发;研究应用中注意澄清混淆品种;开展国内外相关合作,提高研究效率.

General Situations of Study on the Ethnomedicines in West Hubei

This paper is first time to reported the general situations of study of the ethnomedicines in West Hubei in the past twenty years, including various aspects such as the drug variety, resource, pharmacognostical identification, chemical composition, pharmacological activity, clinical study and new drug research. The author puts forward some proposals about utilization and exploration research of the ethnomedicines as follows: firstly, further studies of the major ethnomedicines should been engaged in, and their clinical application should been gradually popularized on the basis of study. Secondly, it is necessary to pay more attention to clinical study and new drug research of these ethnomedicines .Thirdly, some species that are easy to confuse with each other should been clarified. Further more, national and international cooperation should been effectively developed in all the related fields.