MEDICINAL PLANTS IN LIFE OF MODERN MAN: RESULTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY
The article concentrates on history of mankind's use of medicinal plants throughout period of its development, scientific research of the medicinal plants' properties as well as the study of medicinal plants' use in modern society. The issues have been analyzed on level of public awareness on medicinal plants' properties, spheres of application of medicinal raw materials of plant origin (treatment of diseases, their prevention, etc.), preferences of a modern man according use herbs or drugs obtained by chemical synthesis.