Traditional herbal medicines for malaria

Traditional herbal medicines for malaria.

Use of Traditional Herbal Medicines to Cure Malaria

The problem of resistance by malaria causing parasites to drugs in current usage, or of malaria vectors to pesticides has prompted nations to refocus attention on implementing research on new drug development and new pesticides development. The world appears to be rediscovering the importance of traditional medicines and people are resorting to use traditional medicines in different names such ...

Traditional Health Care Systems and Herbal Medicines

The age-old traditional health care practices are still relevant and are followed by communities across the countries. India’s contribution remains exemplary in the growth of traditional health care systems. The present study reviews the strength of traditional health care systems and medicinal plants of India that has been contributing in health care not only from time immemorial but also make...

Traditional use and safety of herbal medicines

In the European Union, traditional herbal medicines that are regarded as “acceptably safe, albeit not having a recognized level of efficacy” fit into a special category of drugs (“traditional herbal medicine products”) for which requirements of non-clinical and clinical studies are less rigorous. A regulation proposal published by the Brazilian National Health Surveillance (Anvisa) defines a si...

Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines for Treating HIV Infections and AIDS

To assess the effects of TCHM on patients with HIV infection and AIDS, we reviewed eleven randomized placebo-controlled trials involving 998 patients. Due to the limited number of RCTs for included trials and the small sample size of each study, we are not able to draw firm conclusions concerning TCHM therapy in treating patients with HIV infection and AIDS. However, some high-quality clinical ...