A Popular Herbal Remedy

摘要

More than half of the top 150 drugs pre scribed in the USA are based on chemicals derived from plants. The UK herbal remedy market is worth about ￡26 million per annum. These figures indicate the importance ot plants to human health. The current popularity of herbal and alternative medicines in the Western world, used to complement or replace conventional medicaments, has increased the demand for wild plants and encouraged their growing as crops. Echinacea, one of the most popular ("in every herbalist's top ten") and long-established herbal remedies, is used world-wide to treat a range of ailments.