because medicinal plants are cheap alternatives to expensive medicines, particularly for the poor
yes
English specifically... I'm not sure. I do know that it's fairly common in China for a person to have two doctors, one who uses Western medicines and techniques and one who uses traditional Chinese medicines. In general, western medicine is used for the treatment of injuries and diseases and traditional medicines are used for health maintenance.
No because it follow 'evidence based practice' and currently there is not enough accurate information on most traditional medicines and their effectiveness. However, many traditional medicines have found their way into the modern formulary. Usually after a few tweaks and a price hike (not that the original 'traditional medicines' are much cheaper). There is some analysis of traditional medicine available from the Cochrane Review and also some shorter more informal reviews on Bandolier.
Yes It Harmful!
it helps you heal various diseases
In most circles, medicinal plants are the ones called traditional medicines. Modern medicine is called conventional medicine. Medicinal plants can be as effective as conventional medicine in some cases. Many conventional medicines come from plants.
Traditional Chinese medicine
There are medicines that can be given to monkies, but the monkies do not have medicines themselves.
yes thay are, pocher kill and skin the bengal tiger just for their bones to make traditional asian medicines.
They are captured and dried out and are used in traditional Chinese medicines. :(
the storehouse of herbal medicines is the forests. We get many medicines from there.