Series Info:Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals;Chapter: 18
Type:Book chapter
Keywords:Phytochemistry
,
Botany
Abstract:
Herbal medicines occupy distinct position right from the primitive period to present
day. In every ethnic group, there exists a traditional health care system, which is
culturally patterned. In rural communities, health care seems to be the first and fore-
most line of defence. The WHO has already recognized the contribution of tradi-
tional health care in tribal communities. These medicines have fewer side effects
and are easily accessible to mankind in the nature. It has been a source of medicinal