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traditional-medicine

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Traditional medicine encompasses the culturally-rooted knowledge and practices that utilize plants for treating illness and maintaining health, particularly within Indigenous communities. For plant science, traditional medicine provides an extensive empirical foundation developed over centuries that can guide the discovery of bioactive compounds and validate plant properties worthy of scientific investigation. This ethnobotanical knowledge serves as a bridge between cultural wisdom and modern phytochemical and pharmacological research, accelerating the identification of plants with therapeutic potential.

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