Medical Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, and Ethnopharmacology ofthe Tzeltal and Tzotzil Populations of Chiapas, Mexico

该项目延续了加州大学伯克利分校的几位文化人类学家对墨西哥研究的现有支持。该项目研究了生活在墨西哥恰帕斯州的一群玛雅印第安人的医学和药理学民族植物学知识。该项目将编制一本植物百科全书，包括其药用和药理学特性和当地习惯用途，以及墨西哥和美国的植物标本馆收藏。这个项目很重要，因为印度人民的传统知识是我们人类生物多样性资源的宝贵组成部分。通过分析这些当地社区的民族植物学和民族药理学知识，并将这些知识与植物生化特性的生物分析相匹配，该项目将增加我们对传统民族植物学知识本质的理解。

This project continues the existing support for research in Mexico of several cultural anthropologists from the University of California-Berkeley. The project studies the medical and pharmacological ethnobotanical knowledge of a group of Mayan Indians living in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The project will prepare an encyclopedia of plants with their medicinal and pharmacological properties and local customary uses, as well as herbarium collections in Mexico and in the USA. This project is important because the traditional knowledge of Indian peoples is a valuable part of our human biodiversity resources. By analyzing these local communities' ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological knowledge, and matching that knowledge with biological assays of the biochemical properties of the plants, this project will add to our understanding of the nature of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.