by Aditi Gupta (Author)
The fungal organism is a eukaryotic, microscopic, heterotrophic, unicellular or multicellular with inflexible cell wall compiled with chitin, glucan, and/or cellulose with a plethora of organelles. Fungi are ubiquitously found in air, soil, plants, and water even as a part of lichens growing on a rock. Diseases caused by fungi which have clinical significance are characterized as primary infections or opportunistic infections. Medicinal plants are available in India and used traditionally as these are rich sources of one or other secondary metabolites. The multiple actions and therapeutic uses of these indigenous plant products or drugs are sufficiently prescribed in classical literature in many medicinal plant volumes and pharmacopeias.