Abstract
Pharmacology has been refractory to the contributions of ethnopharmacology in terms of paradigms for drugs use or mode of action. The complex patterns often found in evaluations of medicinal plant extracts suggest that the effects of plant drugs may often be based on a more complex pharmacodynamic basis than the more usual drug/effect relationships. Pharmacological properties of herbals may result from various active ingredients, interactions among those, or ingredients possessing multiple mechanisms of action. This paper focuses on the psychopharmacology of herbals in the light of newer paradigms of psychotropic drug action. It is suggested that understanding of traditional medical concepts and practices can lead to innovative drug development.
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