Ethnobotanical Survey: The Foundation to Evidence-Based Validation of Medicinal Plants

Plants are vital to the survival of humans and animals. They supply the required nutrient and medicine to this group of living things. Plant seems to be the healthiest diet compared to diet of animal origins. Their benefits have been actualized over the year by the ability of humans and animals to recognize the difference between plants and their uses. Today much has been documented about plants and their food and health benefits. The ability to identify plants and their uses has been beneficial to the survival of mankind. Wrong identification can lead to poisoning and eventual death or to lack of expected activities and thus treatment failure and the consequence of treatment failure. Evidence that plant contents are dependent on the environment they are grown has been documented.