Herbs for Health

Herbs, in botany are a soft-tissue plant that does not develop permanent woody tissues on ground surface. Such plants may be annual, biennial or perennial. Herbaceous plants are generally considered to include soft-tissue angiosperms or flowering plants but may also include the ferns, club mosses and horsetails.

The term herb is applied by pharmacists and herbalists to any plant part that has medicinal properties or nutritious especially for human being eiher used for human health care or as energy supplements. Herb parts, such its leaves that are used as food or seasonings are called culinary herbs or potherbs. It’s also known as medicinal and culinary herbs. The terms culinary were used to show that people used to boiled herbs to get its nutrition, instead of eating it fresh.

At the same hand, the traditional definition of herb is a non-woody (plant with no trunk) plant that dies down to the ground after flowering. Nevertheless, herb is often used to describe a plant of which any of its part is used for medical propose and nutritional value. Herbs originally had been used & studied all over the world since pre-historic mankind.

Some of pharmacists also defined herbs as a large number of plants used as remedial agents in medicine are the natural and original remedies in treating disease.