medicinal plants
The term medicinal plants summarizes all whose components can be used to alleviate or cure health problems. Above all, various herbs have been promised a curative effect, which has now been found to be an alternative to the treatment with classic drugs, but also provide ingredients of flowers, trees and other plants, depending on the nature of a healing effect. Depending on the plant may be used for the desired effect, eg the roots, the petals or the plant as a whole. Compared with modern medicine, the doctrine of medicinal plants goes back many centuries, even in ancient times, medicinal herbs were taken to relieve various diseases or physical pain or rubbed as a tincture or juice on wounds. The knowledge that exists today about medicinal plants has emerged from these centuries-old traditions and has been determined in earlier generations, especially by self-experimentation. An essential role in Europe is attributed above all to the monasteries, in which monks and now have been concerned concerned with the cultivation of flowers and other plants and examined them for their effect as medicinal herbs. Although many modern-day medicines can deliver faster or better results, the use of medicinal herbs remains effective.