List of Medicinal Plants & their uses: Emphasis on herbs in India

Medicinal plants are valuable resources for our health care system since ancient period. These natural herbs are important source of drugs for alternative medicine systems like Ayurveda, homeopathy, Unani and even allopathy. They are thought to constitute 80% of total drugs used by humans.

These natural healing herbs are used in treatment of many diseases and disorders. Their specialty is advantages like better compatibility in the body, easy metabolism, low side effects and also less expensive than synthetic drugs.

Further they are not harmful to environment after disposal. They don’t require heavy manufacture, expensive analysis and storage facilities. They retain their potency for long period if stored well.

Many of them can be used as home-made preparations, during emergency or can be bought as over the counter drugs without physician prescription. So  below chart gives an idea of the List of Medicinal Plants and uses..

List of Medicinal Plants, their uses & growth places in India

Conservation of medicinal plants is very important for future use. Due to heavy use, large plants and those plants which take long time for germination and growth are chopped off. Hence the conservation of medicinal plants is important for future use of these natural herbs. So this can be done by  conservation of medicinal plants and also by obtaining these medicinal plant drugs by tissue culture method.

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