Ascariasis and intestinal parasitic nematodes are the leading cause of mass mortality infecting many people across the globe. In light of the various deleterious side effects of modern chemical-based allopathic drugs, our preferences have currently shifted towards the use of traditional plant-based drugs or botanicals for treating diseases. The defensive propensities in the botanicals against parasites have probably evolved during their co-habitation with parasites, humans and plants in nature and hence their combative interference in one another’s defensive mechanisms has occurred naturally ultimately being very effective in treating diseases. This article broadly outlines the utility of plant-based compounds or botanicals prepared from various medicinal herbs that have the potential to be developed as effective therapies against the important parasites causing ascariasis and intestinal hookworm infections leading to ascariasis & infections and thereby human mortality, wherein allopathic treatments are less effective and causes enormous side-effects.
BT - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences DO - 10.1016/j.sjbs.2023.103814 IS - 11 LA - Eng N2 -Ascariasis and intestinal parasitic nematodes are the leading cause of mass mortality infecting many people across the globe. In light of the various deleterious side effects of modern chemical-based allopathic drugs, our preferences have currently shifted towards the use of traditional plant-based drugs or botanicals for treating diseases. The defensive propensities in the botanicals against parasites have probably evolved during their co-habitation with parasites, humans and plants in nature and hence their combative interference in one another’s defensive mechanisms has occurred naturally ultimately being very effective in treating diseases. This article broadly outlines the utility of plant-based compounds or botanicals prepared from various medicinal herbs that have the potential to be developed as effective therapies against the important parasites causing ascariasis and intestinal hookworm infections leading to ascariasis & infections and thereby human mortality, wherein allopathic treatments are less effective and causes enormous side-effects.
PB - Elsevier BV PY - 2023 SP - 1 EP - 9 T2 - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences TI - Botanicals against some important nematodal diseases: Ascariasis and hookworm infections UR - https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/278674/1-s2.0-S1319562X23X00096/1-s2.0-S1319562X23002590/main.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEF0aCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIFBnFzriQIs8ZFPAYiM2G1T6BPdpX%2BNJ7EbGWA15ttrwAiEAqQnIlwti9tkMondhh9CGs2I1hXm5QrP40o%2BqyWBy VL - 30 SN - 1319-562X ER -