Abstract
Objective: Traditional medicines are of great importance to villagers and also now a day to modern drugs. Scientists are trying to explore new drug resources along with the modern drugs to support drug treatment strategy to be more effective and merely natural. Nature is the rich source of many essential bioactive compounds with more specificity and less side effects and thus, traditional medicines are got attention to the pharmacists. There are lots of medicinal plants with scientific evidences in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) region, but all that information have not yet been compiled as a review. Keeping this in mind, a review attempt has been taken by focusing on traditional medicine used mostly by the indigenous population of Chittagong Hill Tracts region, which is also a rich source of biodiversity of Bangladesh.
 Methods: Research articles based on various traditional medicines focusing CHTs region were taken in consideration to compile the data sources in this review article.
 Results and Conclusion: Peoples in CHTs are using various types of medicinal plants obtained from their surroundings and have been using from long since with traditional reputation. In this review, we focused on such medicinal plants along with their scientific evidences, which would attract lots of scientists to work more to unveil a new research avenue in drug development.
Highlights
Medicinal plants have been using for healing since the beginning of time
A review attempt has been taken by focusing on traditional medicine used mostly by the indigenous population of Chittagong Hill Tracts region
Peoples in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) are using various types of medicinal plants obtained from their surroundings and have been using from long since with traditional reputation. We focused on such medicinal plants along with their scientific evidences, which would attract lots of scientists to work more to unveil a new research avenue in drug development
Summary
Medicinal plants have been using for healing since the beginning of time. The association between man and quest for drugs in nature dates back thousands of years. Medicinal plants play an important role in primary health care. Some of these plants have been linked to scientific evidence, but further research is needed to validate their effectiveness and protection [4,5]. Over the centuries the indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) are predominately dependent on alternative plant medicines They prefer to take locally prepared herbal (plant) medicines against different diseases developing indigenous knowledge of use of plant resources [7,8,9,10]. As it has been mentioned in the previous text that these plants are being used in various forms like boiled in water, soaked in aqueous form or in oil, mixed in milk or honey and sometimes directly externally used, we highlighted some examples of plants with common relevant disease treatment
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