Soma Dey & M. P. Singh 
Indian Medicinal Plants [EPUB ebook] 

In the modern medicine also plants occupy a very significant birth as a raw materials for some important drugs, although synthetic drugs and antibiotics brought about a revolution in controlling different diseases. But these synthetic drugs are out of reach of millions of people. Those who live in remote places depends on traditional heaters, whom they know and trust. Judicious use of medicinal herbs can even cure deadly disease that have long defined synthetic drugs the relationship between man and tree has existed since time immemorial. The usefulness of trees and their protection was emphasized in ancient literature like ’;Puranas’ and the ’;Bhagawat Gita’. More than 200 medicinal plants are used in modern medicine. Plants used in traditional system of medicine of pharmaceutical houses in collected form wild sources. Most of the medicinal plants are cultivated commercially rowa days for extraction of some important active constituents for use in modern medicine.