Medicine Of Natural Products In Pakistan-0300.0023915

  Herbal medicine   (also   Herbalism ) is the study of   pharmacognosy   and the use of   medicinal plants . Plants have been the basis for medical treatments through most of human history, and such   traditional medicine   is still widely practiced today. [1]   Modern medicine makes use of many plant-derived compounds as the basis for evidence-based   pharmaceutical drugs . Although herbalism may apply modern standards of effectiveness testing to herbs and medicines derived from natural sources, few high-quality   clinical trials   and standards for purity or dosage exist. [2]   The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include   fungal   and   bee   products, as well as   minerals ,   shells   and certain animal parts. Herbal medicine is also called  phytomedicine  or  phytotherapy. [3]   Paraherbalism [4]  describes  alternative  and...