Devesh Tewari Lab - Ethnopharmacological Approaches for Therapy of

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Devesh Tewari, A. Mocan, Emil D. Parvanov, A. Sah, S. Nabavi, L. Huminiecki, Z. Ma, Y. Lee, J. Horbańczuk, A. Atanasov
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017

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Tewari, D., Mocan, A., Parvanov, E. D., Sah, A., Nabavi, S., Huminiecki, L., … Atanasov, A. (2017). Ethnopharmacological Approaches for Therapy of Jaundice: Part I. Frontiers in Pharmacology.

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Tewari, Devesh, A. Mocan, Emil D. Parvanov, A. Sah, S. Nabavi, L. Huminiecki, Z. Ma, Y. Lee, J. Horbańczuk, and A. Atanasov. “Ethnopharmacological Approaches for Therapy of Jaundice: Part I.” Frontiers in Pharmacology (2017).

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Tewari, Devesh, et al. “Ethnopharmacological Approaches for Therapy of Jaundice: Part I.” Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017.

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@article{devesh2017a,
  title = {Ethnopharmacological Approaches for Therapy of Jaundice: Part I},
  year = {2017},
  journal = {Frontiers in Pharmacology},
  author = {Tewari, Devesh and Mocan, A. and Parvanov, Emil D. and Sah, A. and Nabavi, S. and Huminiecki, L. and Ma, Z. and Lee, Y. and Horbańczuk, J. and Atanasov, A.}
}

Abstract

Jaundice is a very common symptom especially in the developing countries. It is associated with several hepatic diseases which are still major causes of death. There are many different approaches to jaundice treatment and the growing number of ethnomedicinal studies shows the plant pharmacology as very promising direction. Many medicinal plants are used for the treatment of jaundice, however a comprehensive review on this subject has not been published. The use of medicinal plants in drug discovery is highly emphasized (based on their traditional and safe uses in different folk medicine systems from ancient times). Many sophisticated analytical techniques are emerging in the pharmaceutical field to validate and discover new biologically active chemical entities derived from plants. Here, we aim to classify and categorize medicinal plants relevant for the treatment of jaundice according to their origin, geographical location, and usage. Our search included various databases like Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar. Keywords and phrases used for these searches included: “jaundice,” “hyperbilirubinemia,” “serum glutamate,” “bilirubin,” “Ayurveda.” The first part of the review focuses on the variety of medicinal plant used for the treatment of jaundice (a total of 207 medicinal plants). In the second part, possible mechanisms of action of biologically active secondary metabolites of plants from five families for jaundice treatment are discussed.