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Language | English
Category | Herbal Medicine
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Description: Asia is the largest continent, with 60% of the world’s population living here. The region consists of the continent of Asia plus the islands in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. It has abundant medicinal and aromatic plant species and traditional medicine in Asia has been practised since ancient times. The continent has well-documented traditional knowledge, long-standing practice of traditional medicine and the potential for social and economic development of medicinal and aromatic plants in primary health care and industrial scale production.
The flowering plant species of the world have been estimated to be about 422,000. Between 35,000 to 70,000 species are used for medicinal purposes of which at least 6,500 in Asia (Karki and Williams, 1995). It is one of the largest biodiversity regions in the world containing some of the richest countries in plant resources.
The continent has diverse plant flora but species richness is concentrated mainly in tropical or subtropical regions. Six of the world’s 18 biodiversity hot-spots, namely the Eastern Himalaya, North Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the Western Ghats of South India lie in Asia.
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Compendium of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Vol 2 Asia
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