Abul Bashar Ripon Khalipha1,2*
1Department of Pharmacy, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and
Technology University, Gopalganj-8100, Bangladesh
2Evergreen Scientific Research Centre, Gopalganj-8100, Bangladesh
Abstract: Since the beginning of man’s life on Earth, medicinal plants have played an essential role in sustaining human health as restorative and therapeutic agents in preventing diseases and deterioration. It also goes over the various significant contributions that medicinal plants have made and continue to make to the development of traditional, herbal, and allopathic medicines in the modern world, as well as the extent to which medicinal plants and their constituents are still used in the preparation of both herbal and modern allopathic medicines. A large portion of this talk is devoted to discussions regarding the challenges and potential of producing modern pharmaceuticals from plant resources. The systematic approaches to be taken, as well as the procedure and methods to be used in developing novel medications from medicinal plants, have been detailed. Medicinal plants I formed the basis and foundation stone of both traditional and modern medicines, (ii) have contributed significantly to the development of modern allopathic medicines, (iii) constitute a significant volume of modern medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations, and (iv) still have a lot more to offer to the field of medicine, according to this paper, which examined various historical facts and records concerning medicinal plants. The paper concludes by discussing the medicinal plants of Bangladesh’s potential for development as modern chemical and vegetable medications. At the conclusion of the talk, a list of such medicinal plants is provided, along with the indications for which they could be developed as modern pharmaceuticals.