Abstract

REPORTED HERBAL IMMUNOMODULATORS FOR BETTER HEALTH : AN OVERVIEW

S. V. Kotwal, D. S. Patil* and H. S. Patil

Abstract

Currently there is much growing interest in the use of various medicinal plants as modulators of the complex immune system. A wide range of health-care practices is required to exploit the beneficial effects of Ayurveda, which is the most ancient system of medicines. Being the essence of herbal medicines, Indian medicinal plants manifest miraculous effects in curing a vast range of diseases and disorders among humans and can be better called as ―elixirs of life. Through a number of vast researches conducted in the area, it is being explored that many of the chemicals in the form of alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, polysaccharides, lactones, and glycoside products are responsible to cause alterations in the immunomodulatory properties. Keeping in mind, the tremendous potential of the medicinal plants and their derived drugs, herewith introducing this review with a purpose to globally popularize the Indian herbal medicinal plants as immunomodulatory action.

Keywords: Immunomodulators; Herbal Plants; Immunosuppressor.