Medicinal plant derived drugs and their treatment for human diseases like cancer: A review
1 Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio-45267, USA.
2 Department of Biotechnology, Manipur University, Canchipur, Imphal-795003, India.
Review Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 16(02), 580–585
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2022.16.2.1128
Publication history:
Received on 26 September 2022; revised on 28 October 2022; accepted on 31 October 2022
Abstract:
Several medicinal plants have been popularly known and widely used to cure various diseases throughout the planet since ancient times. Various types of plants have been found to cure different kinds of human diseases effectively. Several research are focused on finding specific compounds from medicinal plants that have effective medicinal properties in curing human diseases. Finding the bioactive compounds specific to a disease could help in understanding the properties of the compound towards a disease and thereby its application with more precision and convenience. Understanding the characteristics of the bioactive compound can help in large scale production to be commercially available globally as per the demands and it can direct to design for synthetic production. It will benefit in several ways in terms of reducing the amount of intake as lesser amount would be needed, reducing restriction of availability as the plant grow at certain environmental conditions and overcome inconvenience of transport/portability and preservation and unseasonal availability of the plant. In this short review, plant derived natural products; anticancer properties of cumin from Curcuma longa subsp and the importance of medicinal plants such as Cronton caudatus subsp are highlighted.
Keywords:
Medicinal plants; Bioactive compounds; Cancer; curcumin; Cronton caudatus subsp
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