NEGLECTED AREAS OF PHYTO-MEDICINAL RESEARCH

The contemporary phytomedicine research is engaged principally towards the target of identification of active principles of the diluents-extracted section of the dry parts of the medicinal plants. Thus, medicinal plants are used in the modern healthcare system almost solely as a source of knowledge for getting efficient molecule/s for synthesizing marketable new drugs. But plants can influence the overall health status in positive directions in various different ways. On the other hand, health status and susceptibility to diseases of an individual is dependent on many factors, like the biological age of the individual, expression or suppression of the genetic predisposition to diseases, etc. All such factors can be controlled or modified in positive directions through following a designed lifestyle and food-drink style, by closing the entry of different synthetic chemicals inside the body, etc. Positive effects of some specific foods, like succulent vegetable salad, fruit salad, nut mixture, spice mixture, etc., in the daily diet can influence the innate immunity of the body to a large extent and thus can control initiation, progression, and severity of diseases. Along with these, the use of synthetic chemical-free succulent biomedicines can act as a better alternative to the presently synthetic chemical-based treatment practices of modern medicine.