Role of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Drug Discovery

Abstract

This essay examines ethnobotany's crucial significance in modern medication development, highlighting how it can connect traditional knowledge with cutting-edge pharmaceutical research. This study emphasizes the abundance of therapeutic plant resources, cultural contexts, and ethical issues that ethnobotany raises by analyzing ethnobotanical data and current research. The incorporation of ethnobotanical knowledge has improved our comprehension of the complex interactions between people and their surroundings and resulted in the discovery of promising medicinal substances. Nonetheless, fair benefit-sharing and ethical issues related to bioprospecting continue to be major topics of discussion. In this paper we will discuss. Role of ethnobotanical knowledge in drug discovery.