Download The Medicinal Of Plants APK latest version Free for Android
Version | 1.0 |
Update | 6 years ago |
Size | 17.29 MB (18,131,159 bytes) |
Developer | Barokahkita |
Category | Apps, Books & Reference |
Package Name | com.themedicinslofplsntd.barokahkita |
OS | 2.3.3 and up |
The Medicinal Of Plants APPLICATION description
The earliest historical records of herbs are found from the Sumerian civilisation, where hundreds of medicinal plants including opium are listed on clay tablets. The Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt describes over 850 plant medicines, while Dioscorides documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materia medica, forming the basis of pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years. Drug research makes use of ethnobotany to search for pharmacologically active substances in nature, and has in this way discovered hundreds of useful compounds. These include the common drugs aspirin, digoxin, quinine, and opium. The compounds found in plants are of many kinds, but most are in four major biochemical classes, the alkaloids, glycosides, polyphenols, and terpenes.
Medicinal plants are widely used to treat disease in non-industrialized societies, not least because they are far cheaper than modern medicines. The annual global export value of pharmaceutical plants in 2012 was over US$2.2 billion.