Use of Plant Medicines by Contemporary Native Hawaiians

当代夏威夷原住民对植物药物的使用

• 批准号: 9221266
• 负责人: Nina Etkin
• 金额: $ 9.02万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-03-01 至 1998-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9221266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Use; Plant; Medicines; Contemporary; Native

The use of plant medicines by contemporary people of Hawaii is commonplace, even among urban populations and in a state which offers one of the most liberal access to biomedical health care in the US. Especially for Native Hawaiians, health care professionals express concern that access to these alternative medicines delays seeking attention from practitioners of biomedicines, which compromises the efficacy of such therapy, and that plant medicines are used in conjunction with or to the exclusion of pharmaceuticals, thereby setting into motion physiochemical actions that might be contrary to the outcome of pharmaceutical therapy alone. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the use of plant medicines from a biobehavioral perspective that explores the cultural constructions of "folk" preventive and therapeutic strategies and links that to pharmacologic assessments of medicinal plants. The principal concern is how preventive and therapeutic strategies affect the physiological health of Native Hawaiians. The plants isolated for attention will meet two criteria that increase the likelihood that they have a significant impact on health: 1) plants that enjoy wide currency - used most commonly by people and/or for more conditions; 2) plants most likely to compete directly with pharmaceuticals and other forms of biomedical care or to delay biomedical treatment.

当代夏威夷人对植物药物的使用 即使是在城市人口中， 它提供了一个最自由的生物医学 美国的医疗保健。 特别是对夏威夷原住民来说， 卫生保健专业人员表示关注， 这些替代药物延迟寻求关注， 生物医学的从业者，这损害了 这种疗法的功效，以及使用植物药物 结合或排除药物， 从而引发生理化学作用， 可能与药物治疗的结果相反 一个人 本研究的主要目的是调查 从生物行为的角度使用植物药物， 探讨了“民间”预防和 治疗策略和药理学的联系 药用植物的评价。 主要关注的是 预防和治疗策略如何影响 夏威夷原住民的生理健康 植物 孤立的注意力将满足两个标准， 它们对一个国家的 健康：1）植物享有广泛的货币-使用最多 通常由人和/或用于更多条件; 2）植物 最有可能直接与制药业竞争， 其他形式的生物医学护理或推迟生物医学护理 治疗