TRUTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF THE PLANTS USED IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Abstract

Plants has an important place in people's lives since the existence of the world. Plants have always been in our lives, sometimes as food, and sometimes to find healing. Plants have been one of the biggest reasons why people settled down. While people obtained great healing from plants, they also used it for different purposes. For example, the accidentally discovered taxane plant was once used to poison people. In addition, the taxane plant is one of the most used plants in breast cancer today. While morphine was used as a great pain reliever in the past, it is also used as a recreational drug today. A substance that is a great source of healing also causes serious damage to the human body, even death. At the same time, even if the plants are not used for wrong purposes, their misuse also has negative consequences for humans. For example, while the chasteberry is a miraculous plant for women, it is a plant that men should stay away from. Since it increases the estrogen level, it gives good results in women and causes infertility in men. Examples like this would not end by counting. With this article, while explaining what kind of healing the plants contain and their harms; In addition, there is information about how people should use it according to age, gender and disease status.