Medicinal plants and sustainable human health: a review

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The significance of medicinal plants in sustainable human health cannot be overlooked. These plants have healing/therapeutic properties in one or any of their organs. The use of these plants is increasing worldwide. They are used in several conditions to augment and maintain human health. In sustainable human health management, medicinal plants have played a vital role which has led to the growing interest in alternative therapies and therapeutic use of plants. This is because; it is very cheap in comparison to the synthetic industrial forms of medication. However, medicinal plants are threatened as a result of human impact and uncontrolled wild collection; it is therefore recommended that deliberate efforts towards domestication and cultivation are essential for continuous supply of these plant species.