Short Communication
Rashidi Dachi
Abstract
The Worldwide the use of plant as medicine has a long history and several modern drugs are of plant origin. The discovery of drugs from plants has has mainly relied in ethno medical use of plants. In their recent review of current marketable drugs. identified 122 compounds of defined structure, obtained from 94 species of plants that are used globally as drugs and with the report revealing that 80% of these have had an ethno medical use identical or related to the current use of the active elements of the plant.