Abstract:
It has been perfomed a comprehensive survey of botany — pharmacological research of 7 leading families of
medicinal flora in Kazakhstan which combine 648 species (46 per cent of all pharmaceutical flora). The leading
families encompassing the largest number of species are Asteraceae (196 species), Rosaceae (89),
Lamiaceae и Fabaceae (по 78), Ranunculaceae (75), Apiaceae (69), Brassicaceae (63). The families to be
analyzed include 109 pharmacopoeia species (some 47 per cent of all known species in Kazakhstan of official
medicine) and 18 rare ones. Research on resource potential of medicinal species within analysed families has
been extremely low. Out of 648 medical herbs raw materials inventory has been defined only for 88 that
makes up some 3.6 % species of plants of 7 leading families, among them there are 50 species to be applied
to official medicine. The introduction research of medicinal plants is substantially high than recource one. In
the territory of Kazakhstan has been tested in crop about 40 per cent of the plants of families mentioned
above. The features of farming techniques have been worked out only for 15 pharmacopeia species; the crop
yields of medicinal plants in crop have been defined for 70 species of leading families
