PJB-2015-17
BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF COMMONLY USED MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM GHAZI BROTHA, ATTOCK DISTRICT
ZABTA K. SHINWARI1*, SUMERA MALIK1, ASAD MUSTAFA KARIM2, RIZWAN FAISAL3 AND MUHAMMAD QAISER4
Abstract
Medicinal plants are important natural source of possibly secure drugs. They have been playing a significant role in mitigating human miseries by contributing herbal medicines in the primary health care systems of remote areas. About 70% population of rural and remote areas depends on folklore and traditional medicines to cure various ailments. The traditional medicines have gained much popularity due to the high cost and adverse effects of allopathic medicines which encouraged manufacturers of Greco-Arab and Ayurvedic systems of medicines to fuse their orthodox medicines with local traditional medicines in order to spread health coverage at a reasonable rate.
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