Abstract

Navroop Kaur*, Charu Tomar, Premnidhi Yadav, Deepali Vashisth, MS Laxmi, Vedanshi Sharma, Mohit Chaudhary, Jaya Malik, Akshay Bharti, Aniket Raj, Pragati Kushwaha and Om Prakash Tiwari

ABSTRACT

India has a long history and strong base for ayurvedic plants, which is a traditional herbal medicinal system. Herbal plants play an important role in preventing and treating human diseases. Plants are related to the event of human civilization round the whole world. In recent years, there has been growing interest in alternative therapies and therefore the therapeutic use of natural products, especially those derived from plants. Plants are considered as one of the main sources of biologically active materials. Plants are considered as rich sources of phytochemical ingredients that enable them to possess medicinal value. Medicinal plants are a potential source for the development of new herbal drug. In the 21st century, the pharmacological effects of medicinal plants are considered a promising future drug/medicine for the management of health care. A number of the medicinal plant have been subjected to detail chemical investigations, and this has led to the isolation of pure bioactive molecules which have been the emergence of the new era of the health care system to treat human disease in the future awareness of the traditional knowledge, and the medicinal plant can play a key role in the exploitation and discovery of natural plant resources. Therefore, this review was conducted to research and describe the method of using medicinal plants throughout history. The aim of the present review is to understand the knowledge of medicinal plants as a future source of herbal drugs.