. History
Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants
The Simpósio de Plantas Medicinais do Brasil
(SPMB) will celebrate its 40th year in 2008, when
helding its XXth edition. The First SPMB actually
happened in 1967, in São Paulo, Brazil,
organized by J.R. Magalhães, E.A. Carlini
and A. Kramer, and was presided over by Prof.
H. Moussatché. The two following SPMB editions
were also held in São Paulo, with the same
organizers and presided respectively by Professors
K. Silberschmidt (II SPMB, 1968) and Prof. Walter
B. Moors (III SPMB, 1969). Three years latter,
in 1972, the IV SPMB was organized by Professors
E.A. Carlini and J.R. do Valle.
After 1972 the SPMB only reappeared
in 1978 (V SPMB), again organized by Professors
E.A. Carlini and J.R. do Valle in São Paulo.
In this Symposium it was decided that SPMB would
be held biannually, at places to be defined in
each edition. Since then, SPMB has occurred in
a regular fashion, rotating in organization and
cities, but every 5 editions (10 years) returning
to São Paulo. The cities and principal
organizers of the 14th editions were as follows:
| VI SPMB (1980) |
Fortaleza (CE) |
Prof. Afrânio A. Carvalho |
| VII SPMB (1982) |
Belo Horizonte(MG) |
Prof. Alaíde Braga de Oliveira |
| VIII SPMB (1984) |
Manaus (AM) |
Prof. José Guilherme Soares Maia |
| IX SPMB (1986) |
Rio de Janeiro (RJ) |
Prof. Affonso do Prado Seabra |
| X SPMB (1988) |
São Paulo (SP) |
Prof. Elisaldo A. Carlini |
| XI SPMB (1990) |
João Pessoa (PB) |
Prof. Delby Fernandes de Medeiros |
| XII SPMB (1992) |
Curitiba (PR) |
Prof. Eduardo Augusto Moreira |
| XIII SPMB (1994) |
Fortaleza (CE) |
Prof. Glauce S. de Barros Viana |
| XIV SPMB (1996) |
Florianópolis (SC) |
Prof. João Batista Calixto |
| XV SPMB (1998) |
Águas de Lindóia (SP) |
Prof. Antônio José Lapa |
| XVI SPMB (2000) |
Recife (PE) |
Prof. Maria Bernadete de Souza Maia |
| XVII SPMB (2002) |
Cuiabá (MT) |
Prof. Domingos Tabajara O. Martins |
| XVIII SPMB (2004) |
Manaus (AM) |
Prof. Juan Revilla |
| XIX SPMB (2006) |
Salvador (BA) |
Prof. Juceni Pereira David |
Finally, in 2008, the Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants will return to the
city of São Paulo, under the presidency
of Professor E.A.Carlini, the original founder
of this Symposium. It will be held jointly with
the X International Congress of Ethnopharmacology,
under the local coordination of Prof. Elaine Elisabetsky.
It will be therefore a commemorative edition and
an excellent opportunity to recall past editions
and verify the advances that since occurred in
medicinal plant research.
International
Congress of Ethnopharmacology
The International Society of Ethnopharmacology
was founded in Strasbourg, in 1990. The biannual
International Congress of Ethnopharmacology (ICE)
have been held as follows:
- I ICE Strasbourg, France, 5-9 June, 1990
- II ICE Uppsala, Sweden, 2-4 July, 1992
- III ICE Beijing, China, 6-10 September, 1994
- IV ICE (joint Congress with Society for Economic
Botany), London, G-B, 1-6 July, 1996
- V ICE (joint congress with the Society for Medicinal
Plant Research), Zurich, Switzerland, 3-7 September,
2000
- VI Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge
II (joint summit with the Society for Economic
Botany), Honolulu, Hawai'i, 28 May -1 June, 2001
- VII ICE (joint congress with South African Society
of Botanists), Pretoria, South Africa, 8-11 January,
2003
- VIII ICE (joint congress with the Society of Ethnobiology
and the Society for Economic Botany), Canterbury,
UK, 13-17 June, 2004
- IX ICE Nanning, China, 22-25 August, 2006
It is therefore with great
pleasure that we will bring this next ICE to Latin
American for the first time, and have the opportunity
to interact with the participants of the active
community of medicinal plant research that congregate
with the Simpósio Brasileiro de Plantas
Medicinais.
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