New Perspectives on How to Discover Drugs from Herbal Medicines : CAM's Outstanding Contribution to Modern Therapeutics
Joint Authors
Zhou, Shu-Feng
Han, Yi-Fan
Tang, Min-Ke
Zhang, Shuo-Feng
Yu, Zhi-Ling
Ma, Dik-Lung
Sun, Jian-Ning
Ko, Kam Ming
Gao, Si-hua
Fong, Wang-Fun
Pan, Si-Yuan
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-25, 25 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-03-24
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
25
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
With tens of thousands of plant species on earth, we are endowed with an enormous wealth of medicinal remedies from Mother Nature.
Natural products and their derivatives represent more than 50% of all the drugs in modern therapeutics.
Because of the low success rate and huge capital investment need, the research and development of conventional drugs are very costly and difficult.
Over the past few decades, researchers have focused on drug discovery from herbal medicines or botanical sources, an important group of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy.
With a long history of herbal usage for the clinical management of a variety of diseases in indigenous cultures, the success rate of developing a new drug from herbal medicinal preparations should, in theory, be higher than that from chemical synthesis.
While the endeavor for drug discovery from herbal medicines is “experience driven,” the search for a therapeutically useful synthetic drug, like “looking for a needle in a haystack,” is a daunting task.
In this paper, we first illustrated various approaches of drug discovery from herbal medicines.
Typical examples of successful drug discovery from botanical sources were given.
In addition, problems in drug discovery from herbal medicines were described and possible solutions were proposed.
The prospect of drug discovery from herbal medicines in the postgenomic era was made with the provision of future directions in this area of drug development.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Pan, Si-Yuan& Zhou, Shu-Feng& Gao, Si-hua& Yu, Zhi-Ling& Zhang, Shuo-Feng& Tang, Min-Ke…[et al.]. 2013. New Perspectives on How to Discover Drugs from Herbal Medicines : CAM's Outstanding Contribution to Modern Therapeutics. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-486281
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pan, Si-Yuan…[et al.]. New Perspectives on How to Discover Drugs from Herbal Medicines : CAM's Outstanding Contribution to Modern Therapeutics. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-486281
American Medical Association (AMA)
Pan, Si-Yuan& Zhou, Shu-Feng& Gao, Si-hua& Yu, Zhi-Ling& Zhang, Shuo-Feng& Tang, Min-Ke…[et al.]. New Perspectives on How to Discover Drugs from Herbal Medicines : CAM's Outstanding Contribution to Modern Therapeutics. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-25.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-486281
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-486281