World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

HERBAL DRUG FOR TUBERCULOSIS DISEASE: A REVIEW

Vani Madaan*, Bharti Kumari, Shivam Gupta, Mayanath Prajapti, Yadav Rupesh and Md. Anisur Rahman

ABSTRACT

The current review was pointed toward archiving restorative plants utilized for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) by the Bapedi customary healers in three regions of the Limpopo Area, South Africa. 52 conventional healers from 17 regions covering Capricorn, Sekhukhune and after berg areas were evaluated among January and July 2011. 21 restorative plant species having a place with 20 genera and 18 families were recorded. The greater part (61.9%) is native and the rest are exotics, found close to homes as weeds or developed in home nurseries as ornamentals or food plants. Hyacinthine, Moraceous and Rutaceous families were the most addressed families as far as species numbers (9.5% each). Spices and trees (38% each) comprised the biggest extent of the development types of the restorative plants utilized. Tuberculosis cures were for the most part ready from leaves (34%) trailed by roots (21%). The remedial cases made on restorative plants used to treat TB by the Bapedi customary healers are all around upheld by writing, with 71.4% of the species having antimicrobial properties or have comparable ethnos restorative purposes in different nations. This concentrate hence, delineates the significance of restorative plants in the treatment and the executives of TB in the Limpopo Territory, South Africa. The restorative plants contain different synthetic constituents which assume a significant part in the treatment of different sicknesses. The ongoing survey made sense of the dispersed data on restorative plants utilized in the treatment of tuberculosis. The survey contains four restorative plants (Allium sativum Aloe vera, Acalypha indica and Allium cepa having hostile to tuberculosis impacts. Also, six restorative plants (Acorus calamus, Curcuma longa, Ephedra gerardia a, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Hydrophilia auriculata, Papaver somniferous have been checked for their toxicological effects in the treatment of tuberculosis.

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