TRENDS OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE RESEARCH AND DRUG DISCOVERY: A REVIEW
AbstractThis review highlights trends in traditional medicine and medicinal plant research and has the purpose of inspiring research focusing on accelerating the integration of traditional medicines into mainstream healthcare systems. Comprehensive literature resources accessible via Google’s search engine were systematically reviewed and described. Traditional medicines in general and traditional African medicine in particular are described. The historical contribution of medicinal plant research to the start of the entire enterprise of drug discovery and development as well as the pharmaceutical industry is highlighted. The decline of traditional medicine during the 19th and 20th centuries and the revival of interest in it towards the end of the 20th century are briefed. The role of conventional new chemical entity-based drug discovery strategies and associated successes and drawbacks related to medicinal plant research plus subsequent advocates foran alternative approach based on traditional medicine inspired by reverse pharmacology by the medicinal plant research community is emphasized. Overall, this review discussed, in addition to applying the well-established and science- and technology-supported drug discovery approach, adopting the concept of traditional medicine-inspired reverse pharmacology may accelerate the integration of traditional medicine into mainstream healthcare.
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Mebrahtom Gebrelibanos Hiben
Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle-Ethiopia.
mebrahtomgs@yahoo.com
20 October 2023
19 November 2023
29 November 2023
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.IJP.10(11).534-53
30 November 2023