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Medicinal plants threatened with loss
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Hundreds of medicinal plants of the world are threatened with extinction, and this could hinder the creation of pharmaceuticals many diseases.
About half of prescription drugs physician contain ingredients isolated wild plants.
The International Council of Botanic Gardens Conservation gave a warning that many of these precious wild plants are threatened because of the predatory collection and destruction of forests.
Medicines for cancer and HIV can be "misled before they can find" - said botany.
The organization represents botanic gardens in 120 countries. The list of 400 plants threatened with extinction, were more than 600 experts the Council as well as leading universities.
They agreed that the greatest threat to suffer four plants:
This whose bark is used for the production of one of the most common cancer drugs - paclitaxel.
Hoodia cactus grows in Namibia. Pharmaceutical companies find it promising in terms of creating drugs for weight loss.
Up to half the world's species of magnolia also threatened. Magnolia is used in Chinese medicine for the treatment of cancer, senile dementia and heart disease.
Lugovoi Winter is a natural means of gout and helps with leukemia, but he is suffering over-harvesting, as it hunted not only pharmacists, but florists.
Already identified valuable components plants, in most cases, are reproduced in laboratories, but the rapid extinction of wild plants could jeopardize the future of discovery.
Moreover, in developing countries five billion people still rely on traditional medicine with its reliance on curative plants, transmits the voyagetoealthylife.
"The loss of medicinal plants of the world, probably not necessarily an issue of paramount importance in the public consciousness. - recognizes the author of the report Belinda Hawkins. - But no exaggeration to say that the sharp decline of these species, if unchecked, will make a precarious health situation in the world" .
It agreed to a representative of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry Richard Ley: "Nature has provided us by many of our medicines ... It is disturbing to the fact that these plants are threatened."
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