what is biodiversity and medicines
Biodiversity plays vital roles in maintaining human and animal health. A wide variety of plants, animals and fungi are used as medicine, essential vitamins, painkillers etc.Natural products have been recognized and used as medicines by ancient cultures all around the world.Many animals are also known to self-medicate using plants and other materials available to them.oopharmacognosy is the study of how animals use plants, insects and other inorganic materials in self-medicatation. For example, apes have been observed selecting a particular part of a medicinal plant by taking off leaves, then breaking the stem to suck out the juice.