ABSTRACT
India is home to a variety of traditional medicine systems that support many health care needs of this country’s nearly one billion people. The recent years have witnessed a great deal of interest in medicinal plants for their potential to yield useful drugs. The increasing popularity of herbal medicinal products in developed countries has given new dimension to the demand of medicinal plants at the international market. The health giving properties of 322medicinal plants have been scientifically validated in a number of diseases. Their effectiveness in such diseases, where modern drugs are hard to find has fueled special interest in these botanicals.
