Medicinal plants: Increasing demand for healing powers from nature

Whether Gingko, St. John's wort or hawthorn - many things that grow in the garden can have a healing effect on health. Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel is Managing Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry at Münster University. In the podcast, he explains how effective natural substances are, where they can be used and what role they could possibly play in the treatment of corona viruses in the future. The pharmacist also gives an overview of the areas in which natural substances are used outside medicine.