Interest in traditional medicine and in particular herbal medicine has increased in both developed and developing countries over the past two decades. Some reported adverse events following the use of certain herbal medicines have been associated with a variety of possible explanations, including the inadvertent use of the wrong plant species, adulteration with undeclared other medicines. The s...

Complementary medicine has emerged with the history of humanity and become widespread use natural products in treatment many diseases. People have used plant species diseases by benefiting from trial error knowledge. Plants been as shelter, food, medicine, spices, cosmetics, tools for religious rituals. Different communities around world widely local plants. In addition, cosmopolitan are all pe...

Sri Lankans have relied on traditional medicine to meet their primary health needs since the beginning of time. This island is blessed with an enormous number medicinal plants, which play a very important role in medicine. However, lengthy documented history still composed are not scientifically proven mentioned abilities or activities. To obtain sound information from this medicine, extraction...

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The people of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, still depend, to a large extent, on traditional herbal medicine for the treatment of various diseases and ailments. This includes the use of plants for the treatment of wounds. Information collected from the traditional healers, the Sangomas, has revealed 38 plant species that are used for the treatment of wounds in the Province. The plants...

According to one of the ancient proverbs in India,” there is no plant on earth which has no medicinal property.” More than 90% of the compounds used in modern medicine have their origin from plant sources. A large number of plants have been used by man from ancient times as medicine for curing various ailments. In recent times there is an upsurge of interest and focus on the importance of medic...

The Economic Botany Data Collection Standard (EBDCS) has been successfully followed by ethnobotanists investigating plant uses in many parts of the world. However, we have encountered some cases in our study of traditional medicine where the standard seems incomplete and inaccurate when it is applied to plant uses of rural or indigenous societies in developing countries. We propose two categori...

fenugreek is an medicinal plant that use in disease some therapy. this plant use  for blood lipids and sugar decreasing in diabetic and non diabetic peoples and have antioxidant and antibacterial activity. the plant contains active constituents such as alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, saponins etc. it is an old medicinal plant. it has been commonly used as a traditional food and medicine. fenug...

With both a full collection of native vascular plant distributions and a full checklist of source plants of the Chinese Materia Medica (CMM), the Uygur Medicine (UM), and the Kazak Medicine (KM) for the Xinjiang region, we defined medicinal plant: vascular plant ratios (simplified as medicinal plant ratios hereafter) as the value of medicinal plant richness divided by vascular plant richness. W...

In India and elsewhere research on medicinal plant is purely oriented towards developing potential drugs from plants. The cue for its therapeutic activity was taken from hundreds of folklores, Ayurveda, Siddha, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) etc., No effort has been made so far in the main stream for developing a protocol for plant research for medicinal purposes. China which embraced an in...