PHYSICOCHEMICAL ATTRIBUTES OF SOIL OF DIFFERENT SITES OF REWA REGION

The importance of medicinal properties of many plants and their great bio-molecule role has already been established. According to one estimate around 70,000 plant species have been reported used at one time or another for medicinal purposes. Among various plants the herbs provide the basic platform material for the isolation and synthesis of conventional drugs. In Ayurveda about 2000 plant species are considered to have medicinal value while the Chinese pharmacopoeia list contain 5700 plant origin traditional medicines. Ancient Indian material Medica described number of plants and their contribution to the development of earliest usable phytotherapy on in Indian system medicines. The Charak Sanhita (1000 BC) contained the use of over 340 drugs belong to plants origin. Most of these plants gathered from wild habitat to isolate the drug for meet out the demand of the society. Thus, despite the rich heritage of knowledge on the use of plant drugs, little attention has been given for promotion of phytopathy.