Comprehensive review on world herb trade and most utilized medicinal plant.

ABSTRACT

Herbal medicine is plant derived material or preparations with therapeutic or other human health benefits, which contain either raw or processed ingredients from one or more plants. Allopathic medicine are said to be more successful in acute conditions of diseases, but due to its side effects plant based medicines are preferred. In the end of 18th century herbal medicines started popularizing in healthcare area. The utilization of medicinal herbs became 60% in most of the countries and 70 -80% of Chiniese, Indian, African and Germany people used from 19th century up to now. Some of the medicinal plants have higest trade in world herb market consistently through past years. These plants are Panax ginseng, Sylibum marianum, Zingiber officinalis, Allium sativum, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Ginkgo biloba, Echinicea indica, Rodeala rosea, Hypericum perforatum and Curcuma longa have shown highest trade in world herb market and these are the top plants which are used in the herbal preparation.