Medicinal Plants
Medicinal Plants
Since prehistoric times, Medicinal plants, often known as medicinal herbs, have been identified and employed in traditional medicine practices. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for defense against insects, fungi, illnesses, and herbivorous mammals, among other things. Numerous phytochemicals have been found as having biological activity, either potential or established. The consequences of taking a complete plant as medication, however, are unknown because a single plant has a vast range of phytochemicals. Furthermore, many therapeutic plants' phytochemical content and pharmacological effects, if any, remain unknown due to a lack of rigorous scientific investigation to determine efficacy and safety.