PHYTOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Background: and Objectives: Medicinal herbs are widely used to treat infectious diseases, and a large number of the traditional remedies have recently been proven effective by science. Even though the processes underlying the majority of plant-derived medicines are not fully understood, the effectiveness of herbal medicine in treating infectious disorders shows that many plants have good effects in treating a variety of bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic infections. Modern methods for the isolation, purification, and characterization of active compounds have substantially benefited in the improvement of both in vitro and in vivo research. For use in clinical trials in the future, this stage is essential. This goal of this review includes some information about the use of herbal remedies in the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases
Materials and methods: Articles related to ethnopharmacological and chemotherapeutic studies on plants or natural products were collected from PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus, etc. using keywords related to chemotherapy, medicinal plants, and natural products, etc. products showing potential for chemotherapeutic effects have been identified from these medicinal plants.
Results: Many plant-based compounds, including quinine and artemisinin, have already been used successfully to treat infectious diseases that are extremely dangerous to human health. The main barriers to plant medicine’s potential to heal are the plant-based products’ inconsistent and unpredictable quality.
Conclusion: Despite the lack of clinical trials evaluating their effectiveness, the use of adult plant uses, gemmotherapy, phytotherapy, and embryonic stem cells should be reexamined as useful resources in the hunt for novel active compounds with extended antibacterial action.
Keywords: Phytotherapy, Gemmotherapy, Antibiotics, Infection, Herbal medicine
