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Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.
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12/01/2022 6:55 pm
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Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.
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12/01/2022 6:55 pm
Several plants, fruits and seeds having hallucinogenic properties and have been used for hundreds of years in folk-medicine, religious ceremonies and rituals all over the globe. When these are taken for a purpose other than medicinal use or in amounts/frequency that impairs one’s physical, physiological or psychological functions, it constitutes drug abuse.
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