[The National Pharmacopoeia and the therapeutic status of flora in Mexican biomedicine].
The paper analyses the transformation of the Mexican pharmacopoeia, focusing on the presence of medicinal plants. Reflecting diverse processes, editions of the pharmacopoeia show a progressive modification in its content and profile. A text written to shape a Mexican materia medica, recognising empirical knowledge by the inclusion of popularly used resources and involving clinicians as authors and recipients, was transformed into a mainly industrial publication with no clinical references. The origin and implications of this process are explored.
Hersch Martinez
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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Museo de Medicina Tradicional y Herbolaria y Proyecto Actores Sociales de la Flora Medicinal en México. leon@dunsun.cti.uaem.mx
D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008800:Mexico; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic / Q000266:history*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal