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Ethnobotany: The Traditional Medical Science for Alleviating Human Ailments and Suffering

Ethnobotany: The Traditional Medical Science for Alleviating Human Ailments and Suffering
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Author(s): Akash (Gurukul Kangri University, India), Navneet Navneet (Gurukul Kangri University, India), Bhupendra Singh Bhandari (HNB Garhwal University, India), Surendra Singh Bisht (HNB Garhwal University, India)and Dalip Kumar Mansotra (Gurukul Kangri University, India)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 20
Source title: Ethnomedicinal Plant Use and Practice in Traditional Medicine
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Akash Akash (Gurukul Kangri University, India), Navneet Navneet (Gurukul Kangri University, India)and B.S. Bhandari (Garhwal University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1320-0.ch003

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Abstract

Traditional medicines and natural products from ethnomedicinal plants have great significance in recent time. Various forms of medicines like Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, kampo, Unani, have been plasticising in recent days due to their effectiveness against various human ailments and also have blossomed into the regulated systems of traditional medicine. This chapter reviews the relationship of plants and humans, along with their cultural relationship and role of the traditional medicines, by exploring the methodologies and various concepts for the discovery of various drugs. Further, this will also illustrate traditional medicines that have their incomparable advantages over the modern allopathic medicines.

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