Congress preliminary programme (Español)

Thursday 8 may

The cultural interbreeding in ethnopharmacology: From indigenous to scientific knowledges

8,30h.
Registration

9h.
Opening and welcome address
Magnífico. Sr. Rector de la Universitat de València

10h.
Lectures

• Ethnopharmacology: new perspectives for the next decade
  Jacques Fleurentin. Président, Société Française d’Ethnopharmacologie. EBSE, Université de Metz, France
• The sad and true story of research on indigenous medical flora (which tells what happened after listening to the WHO "tales" for 25 years)
  Xavier Lozoya, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Laboratorio de Plantas Medicinales del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI. México.

Coffee-break

12 h.
Lectures

• Tibetan pharmacopoeia at the crossroads of cultures
  Guy Mazars. Institut d’Histoire des Sciences, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Président, European Society of Ethnopharmacology.
• Las yerbas y la llamada (tanotsalis)”. The ethnopharmacology of the Nahuas of Sierra de Puebla (Mexico)
  Pierre Beaucage. Département d’Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. Profesor visitante Cátedra UNESCO, 2003. Universitat de València.

Lunch

Indigenous plants and pharmacopoeias

15,30 h.
Lectures

• From Ethnomedicine to the development of natural pharmaceutical products
  Evangelina Marrero Faz. Presidenta de la Sociedad cubana de Farmacología. Research Theme on Natural Drugs, National Center for Animal and Plant Health, La Habana, Cuba.

16,00 h.
Forum

• Plants in between cultures. The transcultural use of medicinal and nutritional plants of the Sierra Tarahumara in Mexico. Claus Deimel, Dr. Direktor, Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig. Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany.
• Caribean pharmacopoeia: cultural interbreeding and convergence of therapeutic knowledges
  Bernard Weniger, Laboratoire de pharmacognosie, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, France. Vice-président, Societé Française d’Ethnopharmacologie.
• The rôle of ethnopharmacology in medicinal plants and phytodrugs valuation in Rumania
  Angela Marculescu. Université de Brasov, Roumanie. Président, Société Roumaine d'Ethnopharmacologie.
• Research on kava in New Caledonia and hepatic toxicity
  Pierre Cabalion. IRD, Nouvelle Calédonie.

Coffee-break

17,30 h.
Posters / Short Communications

19.30h
Guided tour of Valencia historical centre (optional)

Friday 9 may, 2003

Scientific studies on indigenous plants

9 h.
Lectures

• Quality, safety and efficacy as the basis for the introduction of Latin- American medicinal plants in rational Phytotherapy
  Salvador Cañigueral. Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Coordinador internacional del Proyecto X.9 del CYTED.
• Traditional uses of Mesoamerican medicinal plants applied to modern phytotherapy in Guatemala
  Armando Cáceres. Universidad de San Carlos, Facultad de CCQQ y Farmacia, Laboratorio Farmaya, Guatemala. Coordinador de la Red Iberoamericana de productos fitofarmacéuticos, CYTED.

Coffee-break

11h
Lectures

• From ethnobotany to pharmacology: the case of Cannabis sativa from fhe Rif (Morocco)
  Joaquín Molero Mesa, Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Granada, España
• Ethnobotanical research on food plants and their medicinal uses in Catalonia (Iberian Peninsula)
  Joan Vallès. Laboratori de Botànica, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• Validation of medicinal plants central activity: theory and practice
  Thereza Christina Monteiro de Lima Nogueira. CCB. Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Coordinadora de la Red iberomaericana para la validación de plantas medicinales.
• The CYTED experience and the X.6 project
  María José Alcaraz. Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, España. Coordinadora internacional del proyecto X.6 CYTED.
• Search and evaluation of new natural agents with antiinflamatory and antiarthritic activity
  María del Carmen Terencio Silvestre. Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia. España.

Lunch

15.30h.
Cultural interbreeding in ethnopharmacology: the Euro- American case

The interbred vision of Nature
Lecture

• The comparative Natural History of Antonio de Ulloa
  Lewis Pyenson. PhD, FRSC, SLEMCO/Board of Regents Professor of Liberal Arts. Research Professor, Center for Louisiana Studies. Professor of History. Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Physics, and Modern Languages. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Lafayette, Louisiana (US).

16.15h.
Foods and drugs
Forum

• The incorporation of American materia medica to European therapeutic arsenal: folk knowledges, empiricism and classical science
  José Luis Fresquet Febrer. Director, Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Universidad de Valencia – CSIC, Valencia, España.
• The European reception of American plants along 16th century (1530-1600)
  Maria Luz López Terrada. Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Universidad de Valencia – CSIC, Valencia. España.
• The European reception of Francisco Hernández expedition (1570-1577) materia medica
  José Pardo Tomás. Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona, España.
• Nationalism and science: the “new” American plants in 19th century Northamerican materia medica
  Carla P. Aguirre Marco. Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Universidad de Valencia – CSIC, Valencia, España.
• Medicine in México at the beginning of the Colony
  Raquel Álvarez . Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, España.

Coffee-break

18h.
Posters / Short Communications

Saturday 10 may, 2003

9h.
Forum

Herbal medicinal products in the European regulatory framework

• Future European directive on traditional herbal medicinal products: quality, safety and efficacy.
  Estelle Coquillette. Post-authorisation evaluation of medicines for human use Unit. EMEA European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products. London, UK.
• Herbal medicinal products in Spanish legislation
  Diego Martínez Marín. Subdirector adjunto de la Agencia Española del Medicamento. Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, España.
• Regulations on plant-based medical products in France.
  Guy Balansard. Laboratoire de pharmacognosie, Faculté de pharmacie de Marseille, France - Membre du groupe plantes à l'AFSSAPS (Ministère de la santé) - Vice-président de la Société Française d'Ethnopharmacologie
• Ethnopharmacology and ethics: People´s intellectual property rights on their biocultural biodiversity
  Jamal Bellakhdar . Maroc. Société Française d'Ethnopharmacologie

10,30h.
Forum

NGOs and ethnopharmacology. Traditional and scientific knowledges adapted: an alliance serving to sanitary development

• Ethnopharmacology in cooperation projets of Medicus Mundi
  Rosa Ballester. Medicus Mundi. Unidad de Historia de la Medicina, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, España.
• Intervention of ethnopharmacology in human and veterinary medicine: collaboration with Veterinarios sin Fronteras teams and Médecins du Mond in Guatemala
  Jean-Pierre Nicolas. Laboratoire de botanique, Faculté de pharmacie de Lille II, France. Jardins du Mond (Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador).
• Traditional and modern medicine in Latin-America. Cultural aspects of health
  Katarina Greifeld. Ethnologist. International expert in evaluation of efficacy of Governmental and NGO’s projects.

Coffee-break

12,30h.
Conclusions and perspectives

• Guy Mazars, Université de Strasbourg. European Society of Ethnopharmacology
• Jacques Fleurentin, Societé Française d’Ethnopharmacologie. Université de Metz
• Antonio Guerci. Universitá degli Studi di Genova
• Carla P. Aguirre Marco, Universidad de Valencia - CSIC
• Ekkehard Schröder, European Society of Ethnopharmacology, Germany
• Xavier Lozoya. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Laboratorio de Plantas Medicinales del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, México D.F.

14,30 h.
Official Lunch of the Congress

16h.
Guided visit to the Natural Park of Albufera (optional)
Located south of Valencia, about 11km. from the capital, and separated from the sea by a thin stretch of sand dunes held in place by Mediterranean pines and shrubs, this lagoon was formed in prehistoric times as a result of the accumulation of sediments from two nearby rivers on a barrier that formed an inland freshwater lake. Today, this lake measures 6 km. in diameter, with hundreds of navigable canals crisscrossing the surrounding area. Traditionally, people leaving near the shore grow rice, hunt fowl and fish, having harmoniously interacting with the environment for centuries.