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Herbal Medicine for Health Management and Disease Prevention

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Herbal Medicine Phytochemistry

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Abstract

Herbal remedies have been developed and used since the dawn of human civilization. Herbal medicines preponderantly deal with the medicinal application of a broad spectrum of plant regimes for health management and disease prevention. Wider varieties of algae, fungus, and lichen exudates have also been considered for herbal medicine using traditional methods such as infusion, decoction, maceration, distillation, expression, fractionation, and purification. However, conventional channels are insufficiently successful to generate significant demand for industrial-scale manufacture of herbal medicines. Systems synthetic biology and metabolic engineering have proved important in boosting productivity and cutting costs in the production of herbal drugs in this area. Additionally, there are regulatory and bioethical problems for health management and illness prevention at the current state of the art that make it difficult to mass-produce herbal medications. Based on this current scenario, current chapter deals with general outline on herbal medicines; its impact on health management and disease prevention; impact of system synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to accelerate herbal medicine development; and brief outline on regulatory-bioethical aspects upon usage of herbal medicine for health management and disease control.

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Abbreviations

4CL:

4-coenzyme ligase

ADRs:

Adverse drug reactions

AYUSH:

Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy

BEO:

Bergamot essential oil

BUN:

Blood urea nitrogen

CHS:

Chalcone synthase

CodR:

Codeinone reductase

DAC:

Department of Drugs and Cosmetics

DR:

Drug resistance

EGFR:

Estimated glomerular filtration rate

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

HIV:

Human immunodeficiency virus

HSS:

Homospermidine synthase

ILK1β:

Suppresses interleukin-1β

IPA:

Interpretative phenomenological analysis

LCY:

Lycopene cyclase

LIS:

Linalool synthase

MPNPs:

Medicinal plant natural products

NHPR:

Natural Health Product Regulations

NHPs:

Natural health products

PKs:

Polyketides

RIAD:

RIα-binding peptide anchoring disruptor

RIDD:

RIα-binding peptide detector disruptor

RNAi:

RNA interference

SARP:

Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein

SDG:

Sustainable Development Goal

SIRT3:

NAD-dependent deacetylase sirtuin-3

TGA:

Therapeutic Goods Administration

UAE:

Urinary albumin excretion

UTIs:

Urinary tract infections

VEGF:

Vascular endothelial growth factor

WHO:

World Health Organization

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Ghosh, D., Adhikary, S., Bhattacherjee, P., Debnath, S. (2024). Herbal Medicine for Health Management and Disease Prevention. In: Izah, S.C., Ogwu, M.C., Akram, M. (eds) Herbal Medicine Phytochemistry. Reference Series in Phytochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21973-3_31-1

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