Comparative Study on the Phytochemical Analysis of Costus spicatus (Jacq

📄 Project Abstract

Medicinal plants have been in use for a long time in traditional medicine. In order to conserve traditional cultures, biodiversity, community health care and drug growth, ethnobotanical data on medicinal plants and their use by indigenous cultures is useful (Ajaib et al, 2010). After refinement and addition, the authentic knowledge of the use of medicinal plants went from one generation to another (Haq et al, 2011). The traditional recipes are made from either the whole plant or from their different parts, like stem, leaf, root, bark, flower, seed, etc. and also from their secondary product such as gum, resins, and latex. In the human body, through the use of chemical elements, medicinal plants communicate actively or passively with body chemistry. Until the bioactive compounds are absorbed into the blood, by circulating and manipulating the blood vapor, these constituents obtain the requisite benefits (Kolasani et al, 2011). Plants provide the human body with nutrients, vitamins and s...