Question

Which species provide highest medicine

Answer 1

Answer:

Cinchona trees provide highest medicine

Answer 2

The highest medicines provided worldwide are from the plant species.

Explanation:

• From the prehistoric period plants are being used for various medicinal purposes.
• Many traditional practices are taken into day-to-day account.
• Herbal medicines have become a part of society such that about 80 % of the population across the world is dependent on them.
• The additional benefits of using plant-derived medicines are that there are minimal to no side effects.
• Plants are the sources of various drugs which can be:

1. Pharmacopoeial
2. Non- pharmacopoeial
3. Synthetic drugs

The question above can be completed as follows:

Which species provide the highest medicine?

a) animals

b) plants

c) viruses

d) fungi ​