Single botanical drugs in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India—A quantitative ethnobotanical analysis

ABSTRACT: Developing evidence-based uses of herbal medicines and natural product-based drug discovery are two core aims of ethnopharmacology. This requires an understanding of the medicinal plants and the traditional medical knowledge associated with them which is a basis for cross-cultural comparison. The botanical drugs of traditional medical systems are still not understood well, even for well-known and widely respected traditions like Ayurveda. In this study, a quantitative ethnobotanical analysis was performed on the single botanical drugs included in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India (API), presenting an overview on the medicinal plants of Ayurveda from perspectives of plant systematics and medical ethnobotany. Part-I of API includes 621 single botanical drugs, which are sourced from 393 sp

SUBMITTER: Yao R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10213908 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature