Importance of Some Bangladeshi Ethnomedicinal Plants: A Review
Journal Title: European Journal of Medicinal Plants - Year 2016, Vol 16, Issue 4
Abstract
This review article was conducted to identify the effective ethnomedicinal plants on different diseases in the traditional culture of different regions across Bangladesh. Plants are very crucial to the human being not only for the uses in health-care, but plants are also used for various other purposes such as sources of new pharmaceuticals. Ethnomedicinal plants have been used since a long time for human healthcare and most widely used for medication system in developing and least developing countries. People of different communities in Bangladesh use medicinal plants and rely on ethnomedicine because of cost-effectiveness, acceptability, biomedical benefits and less or no side-effects. It is very likely that these phytochemicals will find their way into the arsenal of antimicrobial drugs prescribed by physicians. People in Bangladesh are becoming concerned with the over-prescription and misuse of allopathic antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance is increasing simultaneously in this regard. Ethnomedicine can be used as alternatives to traditional antibiotics, hence, can overcome the problems of antibiotics.
Authors and Affiliations
Md. Ahmed Hossain, Md. Abdul Latif, Biddut Chandra Sarker, Nasreen Jahan
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