Question

name different types of medicine obtained from forest ​

Answer 1

Approximately 10% of today's drugs derive from tropical medicinal plants, including quinine, curare and a number of steroids. Three thousand plants have anti-cancer properties and 70% of these are to be found in tropical forests.

Answer 2

The medicinal plants living in wet forests include the Samambaia (Polypodium lepidopteris and the Polypodium decumanum), a fern that grows in the rainy

Drug Origin

OriginQuinine cinchona tree (S. America)

cinchona tree (S. America)Neostigmine Calabar bean (Africa?)

Calabar bean (Africa?)Novacaine,. cocaine coca plant (South

America)

)Turbocuarine curare liana (America)

vincristine, vinblastine rosy periwinkle

(Madagascar)

Cortisone wild yams (Central America)

Drug research makes use of ethnobotany to search for pharmacologically active substances in nature, and has in this way discovered hundreds of useful compounds. These include the common drugs aspirin, digoxin, quinine, and opium. The compounds found in plants are of many kinds, but most are in four major biochemical classes: alkaloids, glycosides, polyphenols, and terpenes.