Utility of Medicinal Plants for Human Society in Their Daily Life

Abstract

Herbal medicines are in great demand in both developed and developing countries in primary health care because of their great efficacy and no side effects. The revival of interest in plant based drugs have needed and increased demand of medicinal plants leading to overexploitation, unsustainable harvesting and finally several valuable medicinal plants disintegrated from wild position. Utilisation development of drugs from medicinal plants like chemo preventive agents anti aid and antidiabitic plants, development in the antituberculer natural products. Prepare a regional study on the epidemiology, traditional medicine, culture and ecology of the people and their environment. In order to priority of plant collection database is searched to obtain ethnomedical, biological and chemical information of plants known to be used in that region. Data is also collected from remote area hospitals and treatment programs working with local and native peoples. It is still the laboratory based moliculer biologists whose work centers in the laboratory that acquires more status and funding. Field ethnobotanists have not yet received the same level of support and respect. But as per the demand of peoples medicinal plants collection and practice is most essential for primary health care. Precaution should be taken that to conserve wild medicinal plnts and cultivate, propagate medicinal plants in baren land or field