Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.
Drugs like barbiturates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines and other similar drugs that are normally used as medicines to help those patients that are suffering with mental illness such as depression and insomnia. Morphine is a very effective sedative and painkiller and is very useful in patients who have undergone surgery. It is widely used in small doses to relieve pain and induce sleep in cases of serious injury, burns and fractures etc.
Misuse of plant metabolites fruits and seeds in amounts/ frequency more than prescribed for medicinal purposes can impair one’s physical, physiological or functional behaviour creating problem for the society and slowly leads to the eternal truth, i.e. death.
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