The usage of medicinal plants thought history

Етноботаника 5 (2025), Том 2 (стр. 185-207)

АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Biljana Bauer, Sanja Kostadinović Veličkovska 

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DOI: 10.46793/EtnBot25.185B

САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:

Healing   with   medicinal   plants   is   as   old   as   mankind   itself.   The connection between man and his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents, preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines. Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result   of   the   many years of struggles against   illnesses   due   to which man learned to pursue drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and   other   parts   of   the   plants.   Contemporary   science   has acknowledged their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy   a   range   of   drugs   of   plant   origin, known   by ancient   civilizations   and   used   throughout   the   millennia.   The knowledge of the development of ideas related to the usage of medicinal   plants   as   well   as   the   evolution   of awareness   has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man’s life.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:

history, medicinal plants, plant drugs, usage

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT / ПРОЈЕКАТ:

The manuscript was presented under the same title as an oral presentation at the scientific conference „Third conference about medicinal and wild-growing edible plants“ in Pirot city, June 26-28. 2025.

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