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Natural resins: chemical constituents and medicinal uses

2011

Plants and their exudates are used worldwide for the treatment of several diseases and novel drugs continue to be developed through phytochemical research. There are more than 20,000 species of high vegetables, used in traditional medicines that are sources of potential new drugs. Following the modern medicine and drug research advancing, chemically synthesized drugs have replaced plants as the source of most medicinal agents in industrialized countries. However, in developing countries, the majority of the world’s population cannot afford pharmaceutical drugs and use their own plant based indigenous medicines. Several exudates from plants are well-known in folk medicine since ancient time,…