Having advocated that medicinal and aromatic plants are taken or used as medicine, chemical fertilizers and insecticides and pesticides should not be used. How frequently we use plant-based drugs? May once or twice a month or some formulation may be regularly as health or food supplements. Is it do with the chemical composition? Does chemical origin fertilizers and plant protection chemicals really change phytochemical compounds in these natural healers?
If so, how appropriate or wise is it to advise or invariably we are using all sort of chemical fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides etc. in fruit, vegetable, cereals etc., which we consuming daily as food? Even some of them do have biological properties which improve our immune system.
@ N. S. Thakur,
1) The use of chemicals in the form of fertilizer/weedicide/herbicide/pesticide/insecticide in the production of crops including the medicinal plants MAY affect the chemical properties or nutritional value of the product in question.
2) The impact of chemical may vary depending upon whether it is added to the soil or directly applied on the crop plants.
3) It also depends upon whether its impact is local or systemic.
4) If chemical is applied in the soil, far how long it will remain active in the soil?
5) Depending upon this, it can also be taken up by the next crop of the season.
6) The effect of a particular chemical may vary from crop to crop.
7) The doses of chemical application is also an important factor to be considered
I agree with M. C. Sidhu , and as conclusion I thing we shouldn't use chemical in MAPs, we should get these plants from organic farming only.
excessive use chemical fertilizers&pesticides putting harmful chemicals in human body it is leading to untreatable diseases
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