Review Article
    Pharmacognosy Reviews
    Vol. 6
    Issue 11
    2012
    pp. 1-5
    Open Access

    Historical review of medicinal plants’ usage

    Biljana Bauer Petrovska1
    1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, SS Cyril and Methodius University, Vodnjanska 17, 1000 Skopje, THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA.
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    *Biljana Bauer Petrovska

    Department of Pharmacognosy Faculty of Pharmacy, SS Cyril and Methodius University, Vodnjanska 17, 1000 Skopje, THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA.

    biba@ff.ukim.edu.mk

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    Published:23/05/2012
    Received: 17/11/2010
    Accepted: 04/04/2012

    Abstract

    Healing with medicinal plants is as old as mankind itself. The connection between man and his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents, preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines. Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result of the many years of struggles against illnesses due to which man learned to pursue drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and other parts of the plants. Contemporary science has acknowledged their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the millennia. The knowledge of the development of ideas related to the usage of medicinal plants as well as the evolution of awareness has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man’s life.

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    Keywords

    History
    medicinal plants
    plant drugs
    usage
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