Time To Take Medicinal Plant Research Out of the Jungle

In the last ten years, there has been a massive increase in the pharmacological evaluation of medicinal plants and research output in this area especially in the Third World continues at a frenetic pace. As the current Editor-in-Chief of the West African Journal of Pharmacology and Drug Research (a journal that publishes articles all areas of pharmacology and toxicology), I have observed that over sixty percent of papers submitted to us for publication (especially from Africa and Asia) are work on medicinal plants.