Herbal Medicines
Products made from botanical, plants or parts of plants that are used to maintain health conditions or to treat specific diseases are called phytomedicines, herbal products, or botanical products. Herbal medicines can available in powdered, chopped, dried, liquid or in capsule form. Can be use in different ways such as brewed as tea, swallowed as pills or powder, applied to the skin as lotions, creams or gel. [1] Plants and the parts of plants have predates recorded history for their curing purpose and forms the origin of much of modern medicines. Many traditional drugs are originated from botanical sources. Hundreds of years ago many effective drugs were pant based. Example includes: Morphine from opium poppy Digoxin from foxglove Aspirin from willow bark Quinine from cinchona bark Drug development from plant continuous with drug companies engaged in large scale pharmacological screening of herbs. [2] The use of herbal medicines is common amo...