To secure medical care for humanity, scientists must promote research into medicinal plants. However, the climate crisis may thwart this plan.
The group led by Spyros Theodoridis of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt writes about this in the journal “The Lancet Planetary Health”.
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“Medicinal plants and their bioactive compounds hold enormous potential for humanity’s future medical care – as a nature-based, cheap and efficient health tool. But our knowledge of them is still fragmentary,” explains Theodoridis. “Out of approximately 374,000 known plant species, only 15 percent has so far been chemically analyzed – and only six percent has been studied pharmacologically.”
medicinal herbs in medicine
Medicinal herbs are used in medicine and naturopathy because of their ingredients and active ingredients – especially often for high blood pressure, colds (sore throat, cough, runny nose), inflammation, rheumatism or headache. They are usually used in the form of tea, fresh, dried, juice, tincture or ointment. It should be noted that medicinal herbs can be toxic if the dose is too high.
Source: Krone
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