ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2010
Therapeutic Potential of Plants as Anti-microbials for Drug Discovery.
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- A Systematic Review on Antimicrobial and Antiparasitic Activity ofBioMed research international · 2022Pooled it
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- Phytochemicals in Drug Discovery-A Confluence of Tradition and Innovation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Investigation of bioactive components responsible for the antibacterial and anti-biofilm activities ofRSC advances · 2024Article
- A scoping review on efficacy and safety of medicinal plants used for the treatment of diarrhea in sub-Saharan Africa.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Article
- DISPEL: database for ascertaining the best medicinal plants to cure human diseases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023Article
- Inhibition of the norA gene expression and the NorA efflux pump by the tannic acid.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Interaction of Laurusides 1 and 2 with the 3C-like Protease (MInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Plant-Derived Products with Therapeutic Potential against Gastrointestinal Bacteria.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Therapeutic Potential of Flavonoids and Tannins in Management of Oral Infectious Diseases-A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Ethnobotanical Survey of Plants Used by Subsistence Farmers in Mitigating Cabbage and Spinach Diseases in OR Tambo Municipality, South Africa.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Herbal plants as immunity modulators against COVID-19: A primary preventive measure during home quarantine.Journal of herbal medicine · 2022Review
- HPLC-DAD Based Polyphenolic Profiling and Evaluation of Pharmacological Attributes ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts from thePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Interactions with Microbial Proteins Driving the Antibacterial Activity of Flavonoids.Pharmaceutics · 2021Review
- Exploring Phytochemicals for Combating Antibiotic Resistance in Microbial Pathogens.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The uses of traditional medicinal plants for primary health care have steadily increased worldwide in recent years. Scientists are in search of new phytochemicals that could be developed as useful anti-microbials for treatment of infectious diseases. Currently, out of 80% of pharmaceuticals derived from plants, very few are now being used as anti-microbials. Plants are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites that have found anti-microbial properties. This review highlights the current status of traditional medicine, its contribution to modern medicine, recent trends in the evaluation of anti-microbials with a special emphasis upon some tribal medicine, in vitro and in vivo experimental design for screening, and therapeutic efficacy in safety and human clinical trails for commercial outlet. Many of these commercially available compounds are crude preparations administered without performing human clinical trials. Recent methods are useful to standardize the extraction for scientific investigation of new phytochemicals and anti-microbials of traditionally used plants. It is concluded that once the local ethnomedical preparations of traditional sources are scientifically evaluated before dispensing they should replace existing drugs commonly used for the therapeutic treatment of infection. This method should be put into practice for future investigations in the field of ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, ethnobotany and other biological fields for drug discovery.
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