Medicinal properties of Gliricidia sepium: A REVIEW

Abstract

Therapy with medicinal plants is as old as mankind itself. Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result of many years of struggles next to illnesses due to which man learned to pursue drugs from bark, seeds, fruits, and other parts of the plants. Contemporary science has accredited their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the millennia. The knowledge of the improvement of ideas related to the usage of medicinal plants as well as the development of awareness helps to increase the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man's life.