Today, over 80 percent of the world’s population still relies on traditional herbal medicine for its main source of health care and many modern drugs come directly or indirectly from plant extracts or are copies of plant compounds.
Plants with a herbal past often have ‘officinalis’ in their Latin name, derived from ‘officina’, the apothecary’s workshop. Today, over 80 percent of the world’s population still relies on traditional herbal medicine for its main source of health care and many modern drugs come directly or indirectly from plant extracts or are copies of plant compounds.