tailieunhanh - General Guidelines for Methodologies on Research and Evaluation of Traditional Medicine

Indigenous peoples regard all products of the human mind and heart as interrelated within Indigenous knowledge. They assert that all knowledge flows from the same source: the relationships between global flux that needs to be renewed, the people’s kinship with the spirit world. Since the ultimate source of knowledge is the changing ecosystem itself, art and science of a specific people manifest these relationships and can be considered as manifestations of people’s knowledge as a whole (Battiste and Henderson, 2000: 43). . | WHO EDM TRM Distr. General Original English General Guidelines for Methodologies on Research and Evaluation of Traditional Medicine World Health Organization Geneva Acknowledgements WHO acknowledges its indebtedness to the more than 100 experts and national health authorities who provided comments and advice during the preparation of these guidelines. Thanks are also due to those who participated in a WHO informal discussion on research methodology for evaluation of traditional medicine which took place in Rockville MD USA in 1997 where the first draft of the guidelines was prepared. In particular we thank those who participated in the WHO Consultation held in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China Hong Kong SAR in 2000 see Annex X to review and finalize the draft guidelines. We also thank Professor Johan Karlberg Director of the Clinical Trial Centre of the University of Hong Kong who revised Part 3 and Dr Williamina Wilson who edited the final draft. Appreciation is also extended to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - a WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine - at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA for their support to initiate this endeavour in 1997 and to the Department of Health of the Government of Hong Kong SAR the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and the Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong SAR for their generous support in hosting the WHO Consultation and for their financial contribution to publication of the guidelines. World Health Organization 2000 This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization WHO and all rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may however be freely reviewed abstracted reproduced and translated in part or in whole but not for sale nor for use in conjunction with commercial purposes. The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors. Contents Contents