Current Science

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

Challenges in the Promotion of Herbals as Alternative and Complementary Medicine


Affiliations
1 Value Addition Research and Development – Human Health, National Innovation Foundation-India, Grambharti, Mahudi Road, Gandhinagar 382 650, India
 

Herbals, particularly traditional herbal medicines (codified or non-codified) are of immense value. These have significantly contributed to the development of various medications, and hence have become the focus area of researchers for drug discovery. Eighty per cent of the medications of plant origin are suggested to be based on original ethnopharmacological uses1. Paclitaxel (Taxol®), the most extensively used drug for breast cancer, was isolated from Taxus brevifolia bark. Artemisinin and its derivative artemotil, isolated from Artemisia annua and quinine, isolated from Cinchona succirubra bark are approved antimalarial drugs. Apomorphine, used to treat Parkinson’s disease, is a derivative of morphine, which was isolated from Papaver somniferum. Many more effective and safe herbals may be developed as alternative and complementary medicine for different indications with inclusive efforts of the governments, policy makers and technocrats.
User
Notifications
Font Size

  • Dias, D. A., Urban, S. and Roessner, U., Metabolites, 2012, 2, 303–336.

  • Dang, H., Wang, Q., Wang, H., Yan, M. and Liu, X., Phytother. Res., 2016, 30, 292–297.

  • Liberti, L. E. and Der Marderosian, A., J. Pharm. Sci., 1978, 67, 1487–1489.

  • Sangwan, R. S. et al., Curr. Sci., 2004, 86, 461–465.

  • Wurglics, M. et al., J. Am. Pharm. Assoc., 2001, 41, 560–566.

  • Schlag, E. M. and McIntosh, M. S., Phytochemistry, 2006, 67, 1510–1519.

  • Andola, H. C., Rawal, R. S., Rawat, M. S. M., Bhatt, I. D. and Purohit, V. K., Asian J. Biotechnol., 2010, 2, 239– 245.

  • Rieger, G., Müller, M., Guttenberger, H. and Bucar, F., J. Agric. Food Chem., 2008, 56, 9080–9086.

  • Ma, M., Hong, C. L., An, S. Q. and Li, B., J. Agric. Food Chem., 2003, 51, 2390–2393.

  • Cartea, M. E., Velasco, P., Obregón, S., Padilla, G. and de Haro, A., Phytochemistry, 2008, 69, 403–410.

  • Salminen, J. P., Ossipov, V., Haukioja, E. and Pihlaja, K., Phytochemistry, 2001, 57, 15–22.

  • Southwell, I. A. and Bourke, C. A., Phytochemistry, 2001, 56, 437–441.

  • Patel, P., Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm., 2011, 2, 1148–1154.

  • Ernst, E., J. Int. Med., 2002, 252, 107– 113.

  • Park, H. J. et al., J. Forensic Sci., 2016, 61, 226–229.

  • Ko, R. J., N. Engl. J. Med., 1998, 339, 847.

  • Fugh-Berman, A., Lancet, 2000, 355, 134–138.

  • Oga, E. F., Sekine, S., Shitara, Y. and Horie, T., Eur. J. Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet., 2016, 41, 93–108.

  • Bansal, G., Suthar, N., Kaur, J. and Jain, A., Phytother. Res., 2016, 30, 1046– 1058.

  • Bhatt, A., Perspect. Clin. Res., 2016, 7, 59–61.


Abstract Views: 242

PDF Views: 73




  • Challenges in the Promotion of Herbals as Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Abstract Views: 242  |  PDF Views: 73

Authors

Pooja Rawat
Value Addition Research and Development – Human Health, National Innovation Foundation-India, Grambharti, Mahudi Road, Gandhinagar 382 650, India
Pawan Kumar Singh
Value Addition Research and Development – Human Health, National Innovation Foundation-India, Grambharti, Mahudi Road, Gandhinagar 382 650, India
Vipin Kumar
Value Addition Research and Development – Human Health, National Innovation Foundation-India, Grambharti, Mahudi Road, Gandhinagar 382 650, India

Abstract


Herbals, particularly traditional herbal medicines (codified or non-codified) are of immense value. These have significantly contributed to the development of various medications, and hence have become the focus area of researchers for drug discovery. Eighty per cent of the medications of plant origin are suggested to be based on original ethnopharmacological uses1. Paclitaxel (Taxol®), the most extensively used drug for breast cancer, was isolated from Taxus brevifolia bark. Artemisinin and its derivative artemotil, isolated from Artemisia annua and quinine, isolated from Cinchona succirubra bark are approved antimalarial drugs. Apomorphine, used to treat Parkinson’s disease, is a derivative of morphine, which was isolated from Papaver somniferum. Many more effective and safe herbals may be developed as alternative and complementary medicine for different indications with inclusive efforts of the governments, policy makers and technocrats.

References





DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi10%2F1837-1838