Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture

Therapeutic Plants & Materials

Herbal medicines, are also called as phytomedicines, vegetable medicines, or botanical medicines and are defined by World Health Organisation (WHO) refers to herbs, herbal preparations, herbal materials, and finished herbal products that contain whole plants, parts of plants, or other plant materials, including leaves, flowers, bark, berries, and roots, and/or their extracts as active ingredients intended for human therapeutic use or for other benefits in humans and sometime animals.Various kinds of plants mainly used in Herbal Medicine. Herbs include crude plant material, such as leaves, flowers, fruit, wood, bark, seeds, stems, roots, rhizomes or other plant parts which may be entire, fragmented or powdered.