Many modern medicines had
their origin in medicinal plants.
Medicinal plants are plants used as natural medicines.
This practice has existed
since prehistoric times.
There are three ways in which plants have been found
useful in medicine.
First, they may be used directly as teas or in other
extracted forms for their
natural chemical constituents.
Second, they may be used as agents in the synthesis of
drugs.
Finally, the organic molecules found in plants may be
used
as models for synthetic drugs.
Historically, the medicinal value of plants was tested
by trial and error, as in the Doctrine of Signatures.
Modern approaches to determining the medicinal
properties of plants involve collaborative efforts
that can include ethnobotanists, anthropologists,
pharma- ceutical chemists, and physicians.
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