A Review on Traditional Drugs

Authors

  • Samruddhi D Kore  Rajarambapu College of Pharmacy, Kasegaon, Walwa, Sangali, Maharashtra, India
  • Bharati R. Kokare  Rajarambapu College of Pharmacy, Kasegaon, Walwa, Sangali, Maharashtra, India
  • Vandana R. Kolekar  Rajarambapu College of Pharmacy, Kasegaon, Walwa, Sangali, Maharashtra, India
  • A.R.Dhole  Rajarambapu College of Pharmacy, Kasegaon, Walwa, Sangali, Maharashtra, India
  • C.S.Magdum  Rajarambapu College of Pharmacy, Kasegaon, Walwa, Sangali, Maharashtra, India

Keywords:

Chitrak, Kalijiri, Shilagit, Shankhpuspi, Palash, Kantakari, Plumbago Zeylanica, Candida Albicans, Digestive, Haemorrhoids, Vernonia Anthalmintica

Abstract

Natural products have played an important role throughout the world in treating and preventing human diseases. Natural product medicines have come from various source materials including terrestrial plants, terrestrial microorganisms, marine organisms, and terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates and its importance in modern medicine. The value of natural products in this regard can be accessed from: (i) the rate of introduction of new chemical entities of wide structural diversity, including serving as templates for semi synthetic and total synthetic modification, (ii) the number of diseases treated or prevented by these substances, and (iii) their frequency of use in the treatment of disease. On this basis drug like chitrak, kalijiri, Shilagit, Shankhpuspi, Palash,Kantakari are reviewed

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2016-04-30

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Samruddhi D Kore, Bharati R. Kokare, Vandana R. Kolekar, A.R.Dhole, C.S.Magdum, " A Review on Traditional Drugs, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp.275-281, March-April-2016.