Guidelines for Setting Up Data Bases on Medicinal Plants

摘要

As a follow-up action to the recommendations of the Third Consultation on thePharmaceutical Industry held in Madrid, Spain, from 5 to 9 October 1987, and in order to facilitate collection of information by interested countries, an attempt has been made by UNIDO to draw up guidelines for the setting-up of data bases on medicinal plants. The document provides a short account of existing data bases on the international level. It provides pertinent information with regard to criteria and infrastructural requirements for setting up a data base at the national level, it also includes proposals on how to proceed with regional networking of national data bases. It also gives a schedule for design development and requirements for hardware and software, personnel requirements, budget planning, etc. Additionally, steps involved in the preparation of a monograph on medicinal plants have been described and examplified by giving details on Senna.