Abstract

NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY APPROACHES FOR HERBALS: A REVIEW

Rohit Kumar Subhash Rathi* and Roma M. Sharma

ABSTRACT

Plants are nature's remedies and have been used by human beings on earth since ancient times for food and medicines. Herbal drugs are becoming more popular in modern world for their application to use variety of diseases with less toxic effect and better therapeutic effect. If the novel drug delivery technology is applied in the herbal medicine, it may help in increasing the efficiency and reducing the side effect of modern photopharmaceutical research can solve the scientific needs of herbal medicines to be incorporated in novel drug delivery system, such as nanoparticles, microemulsions, niosomes, proniosomes, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles and phytosomes. This review article illuminates the current status of novel herbal formulations and explains the  Different method of preparation of such formulations. In nutshell the combinations used of novel drug delivery  Technology and herbal medicines provides a boon for a safer and effective therapy for humans.

Keywords: Novel drug delivery system, herbal medicines, Standardization, Traditional formulations and efficiency.