Abstract

AN UPDATED REVIEW ON PHYTOMEDICINE ON JOINT DISORDER

Shashank Gupta*, Shambhavi Srivastava, Ashish Patel, Firoj Alam, Pramod Kumar Biswal, Sanjeev Kumar Jha

ABSTRACT

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are persistent joint inflammatory problems that have in not unusual place an upsurge of inflammation, and oxidative stress, ensuing I modern histological changes and disabling symptoms. Currently used traditional medication (starting from pain-killers to organic agents) is potent, however regularly related to serious, even life-threatening aspect effects. Used for millennia in conventional herbalism, medicinal flora are a promising alternative, with decrease fee of unfavorable occasions and efficiency regularly similar with that of traditional
drugs. Nevertheless, their mechanism of movement is in lots of instances elusive and/or uncertain. Even aleven though lots of them had been verified powerful in research performed in vitro or on animal models, there may be a lack of human scientific evidence. The reason of this evaluation is to summarize the to be had scientific facts at the following joint-pleasant medicinal flora, that have been examined in human research: Arnica montana, Boswellia spp., Curcuma spp., Equisetum arvense, Harpagophytum procumbens, Salix spp., Sesamum indicum, Symphytum officinalis, Zingiber officinalis, Panax notoginseng, and Whitania somnifera.

Keywords: Osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; medicinal plants; herbs.