Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Common Medicinal Herbs Found Across India: A Scientific Review.

Cancer is a major public health problem in most developed countries around the world; however, there has been a notable improvement in the survival rate of patients over the past few decades owing to early detection and progress in medical treatment. A few numbers of patients with cancer receive chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy and benefit from treatment with anticancer drugs. However, this anticancer drug causes many side effects with a variety of symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhea, oral mucositis, and numbness, because of their toxic effects on normal cells/tissues. Although many valuable strategies have been developed to treat or prevent these side effects, these side effects often compromise patients’ quality of life. Therefore, an alternative or novel approach to treat or prevent these side effects is required. The causes of cancer can be the use of tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HPV. There is a constant demand for new therapies of treatment and prevent this life from this dangerous threatening disease. The plant kingdom produces a lot of naturally occurring secondary metabolites which are being investigated for the anticancer activities for the development of new clinical drugs. In recent years, several Kampo medicines have been investigated using animal models and clinical trials to assess their effects on chemotherapy-induced side effects. In this paper, we will discuss the demand for natural compounds from medicinal plants and their properties which make them targets for potential anti/inflammatory anticancer treatments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]