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3.
The word drug comes from the Dutch word “droog”, which
means “dried plant”.
4.
The pharmaceuticals that are currently available to physicians
were used as herbal drugs many years ago.
5.
These herbal remedies are opium, morphine, codeine, aspirin,
digitalis, quinine, etc.
6.
80 percent of the world’s population presently uses herbal
medicine for some aspect of primary health care.
7.
Herbal medicine is used both in developing countries and
industrialized world.
8.
Alternative medicine practitioners all over the world consult
population and give their recommendations on the use of
medicinal plants.
9.
Today many drug plants are cultivated and many are collected
from fields and woods.
10.
Some drugs are made of fruits, leaves, roots, flowers, seeds of the
plants.
Task 6. Retell the text.