Initially it was an economic institution designed to curb the power of plutocrats who were manipulating medicinal drug markets in their favor.
In addition, a wealth of information including nutritional value, medicinal properties and the most common methods of processing and preparation is given.
It not only collects samples, but also extensive ethno-botanical information regarding their traditional medicinal use.
Moreover, advances in biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and bone cement and fillers, have been blurring the lines between medicinal products and medical devices.
The lines between medicinal products, biologics, and medical devices are becoming increasingly blurred by these advances.
This case study adds significantly to our understanding of public hygiene and its close interrelationship with rather basic medicinal provision.
For maximum medicinal benefit, agar should be prepared in the summer after the alga has been scorched as much as possible.
Finally, farmers began to grow medicinal herbs substituting drugs that in the past were collected in the wild.
