Ornamental flowers and its medicinal uses – A review

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Sukirtha R
Antony Duraichi R

Abstract

One of the greatest advantages is that flowers and plants offer completely natural medicinal properties, often without the scary side effects that modern pills and medications bring on. Furthermore, remedies made from flowers can be much cheaper than drugs marketed by pharmaceutical companies. Modern apartment houses were occupied with flower garden of Ornamental Flowers. But people don’t know medicinal values of that particular flowers even they don’t know the name of the flower also. In this problem was identified then got idea of this research paper. This Research type was Literature review. Research samples were Open Access Research articles. Sample Collected from Research articles collected from google scholar, science direct, springer, PubMed and Scopus from online searching by ornamental flowers’ medicinal uses. In result minor health  complaints to major NCDs were use flowers as remedies by simple to higher order medicine respectively. Flowers used as far as Common cold & cough to leukaemia therefore ornamental flowers also used as simple remedies for over day today live.

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Sukirtha R, & Antony Duraichi R. (2019). Ornamental flowers and its medicinal uses – A review. Journal of Traditional and Integrative Medicine, 2(3), 58-63. Retrieved from https://jtim.biosci.in/ojs/index.php/jtim/article/view/23
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Sukirtha R

PG Scholar, Department of Gunapadam, Govt. Siddha Medical College, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.

Antony Duraichi R

Lecturer Grade II, Department of Gunapadam, Govt. Siddha Medical College, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.

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