OXALIS CORNICUALATA: INSIGHTS AND ADVANCES IN THE CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY

For decades natural resources have been a genesis of medicinal plant and healthcare facilities. A number of modern drugs are inspired from natural resources. An enormous portion of world’s population depends on historical medicine. In India, the base of treatment system and remedy for several illness is herbal medicine from primordial days. From being regarded as outdated and discredited. Herbs are providing majority of population some of the very important medicine which are used in the modern era as well. There is a belief that herbal medicines are little harmful and free from risk as compared to the synthetic drugs entities in human body. Even researcher of modern medication system has realized the consequences of dietary items, in the form of nutraceuticals and in the treatment of many chronic diseases. The ethno pharmacologists, botanists, microbiologists and natural product researchers are constantly in search of efficacy and mode of action of different medicinal plants and their important medicinal substances as well.