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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: 

Kushal Nandi, Pritam Bakshi, Sandip Sarkar, Susmita Basak, Supradip Mandal, Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen and Dr. Beduin Mahanti, Medicinal plants - the base of holistic medicine in universe, ASIO Journal of Pharmaceutical & Herbal Medicines Research (ASIO-JPHMR), 2020: 6(2), 04-12.

DOI :10.2016-19146535/ ; DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2020-17496133/

Affiliations:

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Techno India University, Salt Lake City, Sector-V, EM-4, Kolkata-700091, West Bengal, India

ABSTRACT:

Nature provides so many holistic units from flora and fauna which are essential for diagnosis and cure of diseases produced by pathogenic and non-pathogenic sources. So many herbal sources produce numbers of macromolecules as well as micronutrients which are essential for body. These are produced from organized and unorganized sources of herbal units eg. Alkaloids, Glycosides, Tannins, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes etc, by biosynthesis followed by biogenesis. Medicinal plants produce drugs which are biologically active to combat over the malfunction of normal body system because all drugs are xenobiotics which come from outer source and goes inside the living body to control over the biochemical and physicochemical parameters.

KEYWORDS: Anti-Cancerous Drug, Anti-Malarial Drug, Anti-Hypertensive Drug, Vinblastine, Vincristine, Quinine, Reserpine

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