Title : Exploring various categories of phytopharmaceuticals against old and emerging viral diseases
Abstract:
Since antient time human beings have been utilizing herbs as rich source of natural medicines. In the modern world, majority of the population trust allopathic medicines to treat most of the diseases without realizing that, plenty of the modern day’s medicines are also obtained from natural resources. Plants produce secondary metabolites for their own survival and immunity and human civilization has explored the plants to obtained medicines to treat various old and emerging diseases. We have experienced the importance of these herbs in the COVID time when most of us were relying on natural products for our survival. There are various other important issues to be handled by the medical community such as: multi drug resistance for microbe and cancer etc. It has been observed that microbes mostly are not able to develop resistance against plant based natural products. There are various mechanisms of action associated with these herbs and a generalized mechanism being their antioxidant natures. Other than this they also act at specific molecular targets to control or manage the diseases and disorders. Most of the time the purified molecules obtained from these plants are not that efficient in comparison to their crude formulations, in fact the different components of such formulations work in synergy and have less or no side effect in contrast to the modern day’s medicines or pure molecules. Various traditional systems of medicine like from China and India already have various natural products included in their daily routine and diet-plan which keep protecting a large population against the diseases. In the present various herbs such as: traditionally used Ocimum, Azadirachta, Curcumin and Withania have been discussed for their role against old and emerging viral diseases.
