Off topic - 28,000 medicinal plants, 6,000 prescription drugs - which is the alternative treatment
From https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/2017/useful-plants.html
Global numbers in each case
Wonder what fraction of prescription drugs are plants or derived from plants
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fewer than 16% (4,478) OF THE SPECIES USED IN PLANT-BASED MEDICINES ARE CITED IN A MEDICINAL REGULATORY PUBLICATION.
In Europe, there is also a trend towards using traditional plant-based (‘herbal’) medicines alongside pharmaceutical drugs; in Germany, for example, it is estimated that 90% of the population use herbal medicines[2].
In China, for example, 10,000-11,250 species (c.34% of the native flora) have documented medicinal uses™™, but only 563 are cited in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia
Product labelling is frequently misleading, with the trade name ‘ginseng’, for example, referring to 15 different species of plant, each with its own particular chemistry and therapeutic properties.
For this year’s State of the World’s Plants, we carried out an analysis of the families of 28,187 species
Will the next lead come from one or more of the 1,200 species used to treat malaria 1231?
143 databases and publications cite 415,180 unique names for plant-based medicines- an average OF 15 ALTERNATIVE NAMES FOR 'EACH 'SPECIES"
Diabetes affects an estimated 422 million adults and is a global health and economic burden 48. One study documents 656 flowering plant species used traditionally for diabetes, representing 437 genera and 111 families[49].
Of 104 plants used for diabetes in seven Central American countries, 16 showed experimental evidence that could explain their traditional use[50]. In drug discovery, Galega officinalis (goat's rue) provided a useful compound for the design of the antidiabetic drug Metformin [49'50], while another plant used traditionally for diabetes, Stevia rebaudiana (sweetleaf), is a source of sweetener compounds used in the food industry[51]