Chapter Number
20
Authors
Bashar Saad
Omar Said
Pages From

512
Pages To
522
Book Title
Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine: Traditional System, Ethics, Safety, Efficacy, and Regulatory Issues
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Edition
1
Abstract

The plants kingdom, Plantae, includes trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses,
and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about
350,000 extant species of plants. Over 80,000 plants are in use throughout the world for their
therapeutic properties. The method of naming plants as well as other living things using
“Latinized” names was introduced to end the confusions of common names, which can refer
to different plants depending on the region where they grow. Although plants had Latin ...