The Interflow of Traditional Drug & Innovations as fundamental Drug Design

Abstract

Traditional medicines form the integral part of the health care system for the developing countries serving around 80% of the world population and are widely used as over the counter medication. There is urgent need to classify the traditional medicines to research facilitate utilization data, safety and efficacy data, quality control measures and provide new avenues for further drug research. Medical texts of Ayurveda have classified the herbs as per their therapeutic indication, but these texts are in Sanskrit or in regional language. This makes it difficult for researchers all over world to access, understand and interpret information. Thus this innovative approach of classification can serve as one stop source of all recent updated information on the herbal drug research for the academia and industry both.  Phytochemicals have a long and successful history in drug discovery.