5th Global Summit on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 2013 (GOSMAP) Malaysia

Med­i­c­i­nal and aro­matic plants in many forms have been used since the ancient times in the tra­di­tional med­i­c­i­nal prac­tices for health care. South Asia is home to many rich, tra­di­tional sys­tems of med­i­cine (TSM). Ayurvedic sys­tem dates back to 5000 B.C. Along with the Unani, Sid­dha and Tibetan sys­tems, these TSMs remain impor­tant source of every­day health and liveli­hood for tens of mil­lions of people.

Accord­ing to WHO report, med­i­c­i­nal plants are acces­si­ble, afford­able and cul­tur­ally appro­pri­ate sources of pri­mary health care for more than 80% of the world pop­u­la­tion relies on tra­di­tional med­i­cine largely plant based for their pri­mary health­care needs. Accord­ing to WHO, the inter­na­tional mar­ket of herbal prod­ucts is esti­mated to be US $ 62 bil­lion which is poised to grow to US $ 5 tril­lion by the year 2050.

Aro­matic plants and their prod­ucts par­tic­u­larly essen­tial oils are becom­ing more impor­tant. Tra­di­tional med­i­cine is, at the present time accepted as an alter­na­tive for or used in con­junc­tion with the west­ern med­ical prac­tice in many countries.

The 5^th Global Sum­mit on Med­i­c­i­nal and Aro­matic Plants is there­fore being orga­nized to pro­vide a forum for research sci­en­tists, tra­di­tional health prac­ti­tion­ers, aca­d­e­mi­cians, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the med­ical and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries, con­ser­va­tion biol­o­gists, bio­chemists, NGOs, pol­icy mak­ers, farm­ers, gov­ern­ment agen­cies etc. to dis­cuss, share the advanced infor­ma­tion and expe­ri­ences on MAP. Also, the sched­uled meet­ing is very impor­tant for future research col­lab­o­ra­tion and net­work­ing between insti­tu­tions par­tic­u­larly in the pro­mo­tion and devel­op­ment of med­i­c­i­nal and aro­matic plant sec­tor for sus­tain­able health pro­mo­tional activities.

Top­ics of the Summit

• Bio­di­ver­sity, man­age­ment and con­ser­va­tion of MAPs
• Biotech­nol­ogy, cul­ti­va­tion and indus­trial pro­cess­ing of MAPs
• Phy­to­chem­istry
• Phar­ma­cog­nosy
• Etnophar­ma­col­ogy,
• Phy­tomed­i­cine
• Phy­to­cos­met­ics
• phar­ma­col­ogy and toxicology
• Qual­ity control
• Eco­nom­ics and Marketing
• IPR and Patent Laws
• Antiox­i­dants
• Nutraceu­ti­cals
• Herbal drugs in Ani­mal Health care
• Aro­matic oils in health and indus­trial applications
• Herbal drugs in con­trol­ling of Viral dis­eases like HIV, AIDS, H1N1, Dengue Fever, etc
• Causes and con­se­quences of over exploita­tion of MAPs in nat­ural habitats
• Any other topic which is related to MAPs

Tech­ni­cal Sessions

• Cul­ti­va­tion and pro­duc­tion of med­i­c­i­nal and aro­matic plants
• Con­ser­va­tion and man­age­ment of MAPs in nat­ural habitats
• Safety and effi­cacy of phy­tomed­i­cines and phytocosmetics
• Iso­la­tion and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of bioac­tive compounds
• Nan­otech­nol­ogy in phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, phy­to­cos­met­ics and nat­ural products
• Bio­di­ver­sity prospect­ing and ethnopharmacology
• Per­spec­tives in nat­ural prod­ucts chemistry.
• Tar­geted screen­ing approaches for drugs and cosmetics.
• Qual­ity, effi­cacy and safety of phy­tomed­i­cines and phytocosmetics
• Tech­nol­ogy devel­op­ments in indus­trial pro­cess­ing of MAPs.
• Eco­nom­ics and mar­ket­ing of med­i­c­i­nal and aro­matic plants
• New devel­op­ments in laws and reg­u­la­tions for the use of MAPs trade and indus­try perspective
• Tra­di­tional med­i­cine and health sys­tems for new and old dis­eases (Ayurveda, sid­dha, unani, chi­nese, home­opa­thy etc)
• Nutraceu­ti­cals and antioxidnats
• Herbal drugs as vet­eri­nary medicine