By your own decision, by searching whole literature in the world, or what else?
Have you tried to see if it is in the NAPRALERT database? http://www.napralert.org/Search/Plant/
NAPRALERT is a relational database of all natural products, including ethnomedical information, pharmacological / biochemical information of extracts of organisms in vitro, in situ, in vivo, in humans (case reports, non-clinical trials) and clinical studies. Similar information is available for secondary metabolites from natural sources.
NOTE: however, coverage of the literature is comprehensive from at least 1975 through and including 2003. Due to budget problems they only include ca. 15% of the literature from 2004 to the present, but articles are being collected and eventually they hope to be up-to-date.
Have you tried to see if it is in the NAPRALERT database? http://www.napralert.org/Search/Plant/
NAPRALERT is a relational database of all natural products, including ethnomedical information, pharmacological / biochemical information of extracts of organisms in vitro, in situ, in vivo, in humans (case reports, non-clinical trials) and clinical studies. Similar information is available for secondary metabolites from natural sources.
NOTE: however, coverage of the literature is comprehensive from at least 1975 through and including 2003. Due to budget problems they only include ca. 15% of the literature from 2004 to the present, but articles are being collected and eventually they hope to be up-to-date.
Information regarding the plant has to be searched in different databases or the region where it it is found commonly,The regional updated databases should be looked for.then it can be said that it is discovered.
Thank you for your reply. I agree with you. I believe that it is possible with a national and international database(s), updated each year and has a satisfactory financial support..
Ethnobotanical uses differ from tribe to tribe, region to region and nation to nation. Therefore, novelty of your finding can be judged at a regional or national or international level depending on your objectives. Literature search is the accepted scientific norm for determining the novelty of information.
www.tkdl.res.in/
you can verify your results here. Indian government has defended many patents by giving ref from this site. this site is prepared by Indian government to prevent false patents to other countries and also to enhance knowledge of traditional drugs.
It really very much depends. Most open access databases only contain information in the public domain, i.e. largely from published materials. However, there are lots of theses and other "grey" literature collecting dust on university shelves. These should be considered too. www.tkdl.res.in/ is a great example of an effort to database all knowledge in a country. this is the more important because most international databases have a bias for literature in English and completely neglect sources in other languages which are oftne much much older than publications in English.
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