THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATICAL PLANTS IN ROMANIA

  • Leon Sorin Muntean
Keywords: medicinal and aromatical plants, Romania

Abstract

With its varied climate and soil conditions, Romania has got a very rich and diverse flora. From the steppe and up to the mountains one can find all kinds of species of plants that grow spontaneously and also plants that are cultivated, altogether more than 3,500 species of superior plants, out of which a number of about 870 species are used in empirical medicine and about 200 are studied from a chemical, pharmaceutical point of view. The almost 900 species of plants (according to some scientists there might be more, around 1000) represent the medicinal flora of Romania. The number of plants which are systematically harvested in our country with a medicinal or aromatic purpose, for internal use or for export, is around 150 species. In our country there are more than 50 species which are cultivated or are to be cultivated, with a medicinal or aromatic purpose, and the tendency is to increase that number as a result of the growing demand for the pharmaceutical industry, of other interested beneficiaries, as well as of the multiple possibilities of exporting these products.

Author Biography

Leon Sorin Muntean

University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine

Published
2013-01-25