Medicinal plants of India
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Introduction
Traditional medicines are used by about 60 per cent of the world's population. These are not only used for primary health care not just in rural areas in developing countries, but also in developed countries as well where modern medicines are predominantly used. While the traditional medicines are derived from medicinal plants, minerals, and organic matter, the herbal drugs are prepared from medicinal plants only. Use of plants as a source of medicine has been inherited and is an important component of the health care system in India. In the Indian systems of medicine, most practitioners formulate and dispense their own recipes, hence this requires proper documentation and research. In western world also, the use of herbal medicines is steadily growing with approximately 40 per cent of population reporting use of herb to treat medical illnesses within the past year. Public, academic and government interest in traditional medicines is growing exponentially due to the increased incidence of the adverse drug reactions and economic burden of the modern system of medicine. There are about 45,000 plant species in India, with concentrated hotspots in the region of Eastern Himalayas, Western Ghats and Andaman & Nicobar Island. The officially documented plants with medicinal potential are 3000 but traditional practitioners use more than 6000. India is the largest producer of medicinal herbs and is appropriately called the botanical garden of the world. There are currently about 250 000 registered medical practitioners of the Ayurvedic system (total for all traditional systems: approximately 291 000), as compared to about 700,000 of the modern medicine system. In rural India, 70 per cent of the population is dependent on the traditional system of medicine, the Ayurveda.
Some Medicinal Plants of India
Banchalita
Bandicoot Berry
Bara Gokhru
Barbados Cherry
Barringtonia
Bell Weed
Bellyache Bush
Bengal Sage
Bhringaraj
Bichchhoo
Bilimbi
Bird's Head Birthwort
Black Nightshade
Brahmi
Bush Grape
Cabbage Palm
Calabash Tree
Castor Oil Plant
Cat's Whiskers
Catnip
Ceylon Hydrolea
Chameleon Plant
Chaste Tree
Chebulic Myrobalan
Chicory
Chinese Cucumber
Chinese Wedelia
Chir Pine
Chirayita
Chitra
Chitrak
Chives
Coffee Plum
Comfrey
Common Crape Myrtle
Common Leucas
Common Rock Jasmine
Common Yarrow
Crested Lepidagathis
Curry Leaf
Desert Hyacinth
Dwarf Morning Glory
Dwarf Rhododendron
East Indian Arrowroot
East Indian Globe Thistle
East-Indian Screw Tree
Elegant False Tamarisk
Elephant Foot
Eucalyptus
Fever Nut
Feverfew
Fiji Arrowroot
Fire Flame Bush
Flax
Fried Egg Tree
Frog Fruit
Gamhar
Garden Asparagus
Garlic Pear Tree
Gaub
Giant Mexican Sunflower
Giant Potato
Glory Bower
Goanese Ipecac
Goat Weed
Graceful Sandmat
Great Morinda
Green Milkweed Creeper
Ground Cherry
Guest Tree
Gulbel
Gummy Gardenia
Gurmar
Hairy Agrimony
Hatchet Cactus
Henbane
Hill Glory Bower
Hill Gynura
Hill Turmeric
Himalaya Onion
Himalayan Bugle
Himalayan Hogweed
Himalayan Milk Vetch
Himalayan Thorowax
Holostemma Creeper
Honeyweed
Hophead
Horned Lousewort
Horse Mint
Horse Nettle
Indian Barberry
Indian Borage
Indian Kudzu
Indian Mallow
Indian Nightshade
Indian Pavetta
Indian Pennywort
Indian Sarsaparilla
Indian Squirrel Tail
Indian Tree of Heaven
Indian Tulip Tree
Indian Valerian
Indian Willow
Indian Wormwood
Indrajao
Ironwood Tree
Jackal Jujube
Jeevak
Kakronda
Kali Musli
Kamala Tree
Kariyat
Karvy
Kasturi Kamal
Katsagon
Kidney Leaf Morning Glory
Kumarika
Lal Chitrak
Lavang Lata
Leafless Mistletoe
Little Ironweed
Long Leaved Alysicarpus
Long Pepper
Love in a Mist
Madhavi Lata
Madras Carpet
Magenta Plant
Mahua
Malabar Catmint
Malabar Nut
Malay Apple
Marsh Barbel
Maulsari
Mousetail Plant
Nag Kesar
Nepal Dock
Nepal Hogweed
Nepal Mahonia
Nettle Leaved Lindenbergia
Nongmangkha
Opium Poppy
Oriental Pepper
Oval Leaf Pondweed
Perennial Buckwheat
Persian Lilac
Phalsa
Pink Catmint
Pithraj Tree
Pongam Tree
Porcupine Flower
Prickly Chaff Flower
Prickly Sow-Thistle
Puncture Vine
Queen Crape Myrtle
Quick Weed
Red Sandalwood
Red Spiderling
River Beauty
Rudravanti
Rue
Safflower
Sage Leaved Alangium
Salaparni
Sarpagandha
Satawari
Sausage Tree
Sea Mango
Sensitive Smithia
Sessile Joyweed
Shell Ginger
Shepherd's Purse
Shisham
Shrub Vinca
Siam Weed
Singkrang
Sita Ashok
Snake Jasmine
Snow Lotus
South Indian Mahua
Sow Thistle
Spade Flower
Spanish Needles
Spiked Ginger Lily
Stem Clasping Ligularia
Sticky Daisy
Stinking Cassia
Stone Flower
Sugar Apple
Sweet Broom Weed
Sweet Indrajao
Takoli
Tanner's Cassia
Thickhead
Thorny Nightshade
Toothache Plant
Travelers Joy
Tree Bean
Triangular Spurge
Tulsi
Two-toothed Chaff Flower
Velvet Bean
Vervain
Water Willow
West Indian Indigo
White Dead Nettle
Wild Guava
Wild Indigo
Wild Snake Root
Wild Turmeric
Winged Prickly Ash
Yellow Dots
Yellow Himalayan Raspberry
Yellow Jasmine
Yellow Nicker
