Abstract
Ethnobotany: A Living Science for Alleviating Human Suffering
Highlights
The ethnobotany provided significant information that led to isolation of active compounds from the recent past like morphine from opium, cocaine, codeine, digitoxin, and quinine [4,5,6]
Ethnobotanical studies discover plant resources that can be used for targeting novel compounds leading to the development of new medicaments for treating especially complicated and minor diseases [2]
The very common ones are diosgenin derived from Dioscorea deltoidea; reserpine from Rauwolfia serpentina; pilocarpine from Pilocarpus spp.; vincristine/ vinblastine from Catharanthus roseus; digoxin/digitoxin from Digitalis species [7]; arteether, a recent antimalarial drug is obtained from artemisinin-a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from Artemisia annua [8]; galantamine isolated from Galanthus woronowii [9, 10]
Summary
The ethnobotany provided significant information that led to isolation of active compounds from the recent past like morphine from opium, cocaine, codeine, digitoxin, and quinine [4,5,6]. Plants served as the first source of medicine to treat ailments. This knowledge has been orally passed from generation to generation which led to the development of the traditional health care system, practiced in various countries of the world [1].
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