Morphine, digitalis and atropine are the drugs that are derived from plants.
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.
Medicinal plants are used for.... well... healing injuries and stuff like that. I'm Chinese, and herbs are from China. Once my foot ached and my father rubbed herbs on my foot. It healed the next day. They're like medicine plants.
Before contact with Europeans they made most of their medicine from plants and animals. They traded with other Aboriginal groups and that trade would have certainly included items used as medicine but most would be sourced locally.
Medicine comes from plants!
Absolutely! Osteopathic medicine as it is practiced in the United States includes modern and conventional medicine.
Medicine Pipes.
Biology is the closest answer, but it's a big field ... so botany (plants), zoology (animals), medicine (people) all should be included.
Modern medicine has proven that homoeopathy is nothing more than a psychological placebo.Thanks to modern medicine, a lot of diseases can be treated quickly.
Herbal Plants
Faith Mitchell has written: 'Hoodoo medicine' -- subject(s): Medicinal plants, Medicine, Traditional, Plants, Medicinal, Traditional medicine
Sea anemones are not plants.
Medication was invented to treat and cure different illnesses and ailments. In ancient times, before the invention of pharmaceutical medications, plants in nature were used. A lot of modern day medications are derived from these plants.