The term `medicinal flowers' denote s thos e non  
aromati c and fragrant flowers that are used for  
medicinal, perfumery, dye and beauty purpose. Spices  
and condiments additionally fall beneathneath this category. Generally  
the entire plant, flowers, leaves, fruits, stem roots or their  
bark, gums and oleresins etc. are used. In India, the  
medicinal flowers or herbs (the elements of the plant usually  
dried) are used in (i) indigenous structures of remedy, i.e.  
Ayurvedic, Unani and Sidha; Tibetan device of remedy  
(usually in border regions, i.e.. Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh,  
Sikkim, etc.) (ii) present day device of remedy; and (iii)  
homoeopathic device to a few extent.  
From earliest instances mankind has used flowers in an  
attemipt to remedy illnesses and relieve bodily suffering.  
Primiitive peoples in every age have had a few know-how of  
medicinal flowers, derived because the end result of trial and error.  
These primitive try at remedy have been primarily based totally on  
hypothesis and superstition. Most savage human beings have  
believed that ailment turned into because of the presence of evil  
spirits withinside the frame and will be pushed out best with the aid of using the Use of toxic or unpleasant materials calculated to  
make the frame an ugly region wherein to remain.  
India ha s a protracted records on the united states e of a large  
quantity of medicinal plant life for numerous purposes. The  
records of medication in India may be traced to the remote  
past. The earliest point out of the medicinal use of plant life  
is discovered withinside the Rig veda, possibly the oldest repository of  
human expertise, having been written among 4500 and  
1600 B.C. The paintings of Agnivesha resulted withinside the  
compilation of charaka- Samhita with the aid of using Charaka. Sushruta a  
remarkable disciple of Dhanvantri, become acknowledged for his  
expertise of surgical operation and medicine. Later, for the duration of the  
Buddhist period, huge development become made and  
medicinal plant life have been cultivated beneathneath the path of  
surprisingly certified specialists. Contacts with Greece and  
Rome, and later with Arabia and Persia, contributed to  
the enrichment of the Indian cloth materia and a large  
quantity of vegetable and different merchandise got here into use for  
the remedy of diseases. Dymock`s vegetable materia  
Medica of India seemed in 1883 and his comprehensive.  
Work Pharmacographic Indica (1890-93) become organized in  
collaboration with Warden and Hooper. Sir George watt  
produced a voluminous Dictionary of Economic plant life of India in six volumes (1989-93). These are outstanding  
works containing wealth of facts on economic  plants.