CURRENT STATUS OF HEPATOPROTECTIVE MEDICINAL PLANTS: NATURAL PRODUCTS USED IN HEPATOPROTECTIVE REMEDIES IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Abstract

All plants have a potential medicinal value and have been considered as vital helpful guide for lightening illness of humankind. Herbal plants or medicines have been utilized traditionally by herbalist worldwide for the prevention and treatment of liver disease. Medicinal plants assume a key part in human health care. Around 80% of the total populace depends on the utilization of traditional medicine, which is dominatingly in view of plant material.

A long running drug therapy, environmental pollutants, hepatic disease and alcoholic intoxicants are the fundamental driver of liver disorders. Notwithstanding reliable human exertion and drug discovery, present day drug has almost no to offer. Different Ayurveda and Unani herbal drugs are utilized to cure liver diseases. The herbal drugs utilized as hepatoprotectives in Ayurvedic system of medicine and the Ayurvedic formulations employed to cure liver disorders.

Liver disease, also called hepatic disease is any condition that may cause unsettling influence of liver function and causes illness. The liver is in-charge of numerous indispensable capacities inside the body and should it wind up diseased or harmed, the loss of those capacities can make huge harm the body. Common items which are gotten from plant removes, herbs, creatures, marine and microorganisms are utilized traditionally for treatment of liver infirmities. Over half of the drugs available are as yet in view of normal items. This survey is on characteristic items from plants, marine and microbiological hotspots for the treatment of liver diseases. This work expects to help analysts in the investigation of common items valuable in lightening liver disorders.

The present paper discusses different types of medicinal plants containing hepatoprotective activity.