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Herbal medicines, along with other herbal products including health foods and nutraceuticals, are being more widely used these days than a few decades ago.This is because modern pharmaceuticals are out of reach of a large proportion of the human population and reports of adverse side effects of many modem synthetic drugs.So, there is a need for the use of perennial source of human medical knowledge inherited through the centuries.This medical knowledge is largely herbal in nature and is regarded as an important but underutilized resource to combat disease.