دیدگاه های تاریخی اتنوباتانی

From time immemorial, man has been depending on Mother Nature for all his basic needs. The plant diversity existed around him always attracted his curiosity. Man's preliminary interest in plants started from his need for food, shelter and protection. Then he sought among them the remedies for injuries and diseases. In fact, medicine and botany always had strong and close connections as most of the modern medicines come from plant sources. Literature survey clearly reveals that the plant resources were cited around the globe for curing almost all the disease categories i.e. skin disorders, respiratory disorders, digestive disorders, urinary disorders, cardiac disorders, ophthalmic disorders, ear nose throat (ENT) disorders, excretory disorders, nervous disorders, immunity disorders, and so on. The orally exchanged customary information/knowledge is in hands of the elders, and most of it can vanish conveniently after their death because of which such imperative information leads towards depletion. The ethnic society resources like the folk asset in association with a nature of investigated and surveyed areas can be greatly conserved through documentation. The natural chemical compounds may be screened and isolated. Further, plants with therapeutic uses must be tested in studies by using those isolated natural compounds in the labs to screen and evaluate the plants' metabolites, that they are so applicable to the therapeutic use.