THE POWER OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
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Man has depended on nature since time immemorial to heal, to eat, and to survive. Medicinal plants were an essential part of the medical tradition of civilizations long before modern pharmacology, and the historical examples of these systems are Ayurvedic (and Unani) systems, Chinese herbal, and indigenous ethnomedicine 1. Medicinal plants are an important part of the world health in spite of wonderful achievements in the development of synthetic drugs and biotechnology. Indeed, the world health organization is found to estimate that about 80 percent of the people in the developing nations, use herbal medicine as primary healthcare. With the further development of scientific knowledge, the world nowadays faces a revival of the studies on plant-based therapeutics. This comeback is not just a nostalgic one, but a motivated one, responding to the pressing demands in the world: antimicrobial resistance, the burden of chronic illnesses, an increase in drug prices, and a new interest in long-term health practices2.
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