A survey on indigenous knowledge systems databases for African traditional medicines
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2018-06
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This study aimed at surveying the constructed Indigenous
knowledge systems databases for African Traditional medicine;
learning their diversity features, common challenges and develops
the missing information when constructing indigenous knowledge
system for Tanzanian Traditional Medicine. According to the
research presented by different scholars, there are more than 10
databases for African traditional plants medicine. The translation
of biodiversity towards the new therapy has been a challenge
towards creating the database for traditional medicine in Africa.
This has led to most of the available database lack enough
information on ethnopharmacological data. The effort towards the
introduction of bioinformatics in most of the undergraduate
circular gives the best direction towards developments of
computational in pharmaceutical fields. By concluding, the
development of global data in a single indigenous knowledge
system may be impossible in view of the culture and biodiversity
differences; efforts have to be given to specific
regional areas and African museum should act as a center to link
all indigenous knowledge systems. The need of using the
collaborative approach for defining a common standard in
medicinal plant database for knowledge sharing and scientific
advancement is inevitable in developing a unified indigenous
knowledge systems Database for African Traditional Medicine.
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Traditional Medicine, Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Phytomedicine, Ethno-medicinal