Plant Introduction in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India: Achievements and Opportunities

Abstract

Human civilization witnessed the origin of a number
of Health Tradition Systems through out the world. Each
system has developed a number of effective herbal
disease cure practices, which spread through out the
world. An enormous number of medicinal plants are
available in each health care system and are distributed
in different parts of the world. Cultivation of medicinal
plants is comparatively new phenomenon and
domestication is widely prevalent in medicinal plant
cultivation directly from the wild material.