Medicinal and aromatic plant

Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

•          History of herbal medicine is as older as human civilization.

•          Plants were used in China, India, Egypt, Greece long before the beginning the Christian era.

•          People of India, China have been using herbal drugs for over 5000 years.

•          90% plants used in industries are collected from wild.

•          About 800 species are used by industries but only about 20 species are under frequent cultivation

•          Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Poland and Spain are examples of countries that cultivate some materials on a large scale.

•          70% of plants involved destructive harvesting because of the parts like root, bark , stem, etc (plant can dye)

•          World Health Organization (WHO) reported that, about 80 % of the population from developing country and 50-60 % from Developed country, still be used herbal medicine from primary health care  system

•          The percentage of people using traditional medicines decreases in developed countries: 40-50 percent in Germany , 42 percent in the USA , 48 percent in Australia and 49 percent in France