Plants not only provide the human body with organic life-giving nutrients, vitamins and minerals,but also perform other highly specialized functions like giving us food, beautifying the landscape, providing us with shelter and clothing, and many others. But the greatest contribution of plants to humanity is found in their healing and restoring properties. Since the traditional or popular name of medicinal plants varies so much according to regional and cultural aspects, they have been grouped alphabetically according to their common English name. They are also grouped according to their medicinal properties.
