Volume 2, Issue 1

 

Some Plants used in Ayurvedic and Homoeopathic Medicine

 

Author(s): Veena Joshi *, R.P.Joshi
Associate Professor , Department of chemistry ,HNB Garhwal University SRT Campus Badshahi Thaul - Uttarakhand 249199

Abstract: Traditional medicines are used by about 60% of the world’s population. These are used for primary health care,not only in rural areas of  developing nations but they are also used in the  developed countries where modern medicine are pre dominantly used .In the western world the use of medicinal herbs is continuously  growing, approximately 40% of the population is using  herbs for medical illness due to increased  incidences  of adverse effects of allopathic medicine. There are about 45000 plant species in India, Eastern Himalayas, Western  Ghats and Andman and Nicobar Islands are the hot spot for medicinal plants. Officially documented plants with medicinal potential are 3000 but traditional practioner use more than 6000. Seventy percent of the population in the rural India is dependent on the ayurvedic system of medicine. Most of the drugs used in modern medicine and ancient Indian medicinal system are of plant origin. Beside plants many minerals, salts and animal products are used in Ayurvedic medicines Homoeopathy originated in west, German physician Samuel Hanemann was the father of homoeopathy (1796), the homeopathic  remedies are prepared by successive dilution followed by  shaking forcefully. Homoeopathy uses  animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic substances in its remedies. Arsenicum album (arsenic oxide),Natrum muriaticum (sodium chloride ),opium(plant), and thyroidinum (thyroid hormone) are some of the homoeopathic medicines extracted from different sources.

 

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