Abstract
Awareness of traditional knowledge and medicinal plants can play a key role in the utilization and discovery of natural plant resources. Plants became the basis of medicine system throughout the world for thousands of years and continue to provide mankind with new remedies. Researchers generally agree that natural products from plants and other organisms have been the most consistently successful source for ideas for new drugs. The world health organization estimates that 80% of the population living in the developing countries relies exclusively on traditional medicine for their primary health care. More than half of the world's population still relies entirely on plants for medicines, and plants supply the active ingredients of most traditional medical products. The review shows the south Indian medicinal plant products has been used by people to treat various health ailments.
Highlights
India has a rich repository of medicinal plant species
More than 80% of the population of our country is dependent on medicinal plants for its primary health care (Ravikumar and Ved, 2000)
Medicinal plants play a useful note in the development of modern therapeutic agents
Summary
India has a rich repository of medicinal plant species (about 8000). More than 80% of the population of our country is dependent on medicinal plants for its primary health care (Ravikumar and Ved, 2000). The increasing prevalence of multidrug resistant strains of microbes and the reduced susceptibility to antibiotics and antifungal drugs available in the market raises the number of untreatable bacterial and fungal infections; there is an urgency to search for the new infection-fighting strategies (Alonso et al, 2000 and Sader et al, 2002). In this regard, efforts are being made by systematic screening of the plants to discover novel antimicrobial, antioxidant and analgesic compounds. Medicinal plants with Pharmacological importance: The following are some of the medicinal plants around south India Western Ghats having higher range of pharmacological activities
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