Volume : 3, Issue : 3, March - 2014

Scope and Pharmacological Limitations of Medicinal Plants in The Treatment of Diseases

Gabriel Miranda Trejo, Hilaria Angelica Gomez Calderon, Gerardo Gomez Gonzalez, Jord N Miranda Trejo

Abstract :

 This review presents literature referred to infectious and degenerative chronic diseases treated with medicinal plants. The study is based on scientific pharmaceutical literature and experimental reports. The types of diseases studied are some within the classification of chronic degenerative and infectious; literature review shows that herbs are more effective in infectious diseases, mainly diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, salmonella, typhoid fever, vaginal and skin infections and venereal diseases; while it is generating a lot of research for degenerative chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer, and within nutritional, obesity.