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POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MEDICINAL PLANTS AND AYURVEDIC TECHNIQUES TO COMBAT POLLUTION-A REVIEW

Dr. Nikita Sharma*, Dr. Chandan Singh, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Purvia and Dr. Manoj Adlakha

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Abstract

One of the biggest challenges to ecosystem health and biodiversity is climate change. In this context, climate change also has an impact on key secondary metabolites produced by medicinal plants. Major abiotic elements that have an impact on changing climatic conditions and factors that either directly or indirectly affect the development, synthesis, and production of secondary metabolites in plants include elevated levels of CO2, ozone, drought, and cold temperatures. The secondary metabolites of medicinal plants are being employed as a safe alternative to allopathic therapy, which has adverse effects and diseases associated with multidrug resistance. Since ancient times, herbal plants and their products have been widely utilised to cure common illnesses including diabetes, cancer, cholera, diarrhoea, asthma, and pyrexia.

Keywords: Secondary metabolites, Plant, Ashtawarga plants.