| Summary: | 1. Relevance of the work
First medicine used by man was of herbal origin, i.e. prepared from plants, their parts and mixtures. After thousands of years, these preparations have not lost their relevance. Increasingly more and more clinical research is done on verification of efficiency and safety of herbal medicine, whereas methods of modern analysis help to ensure their quality and stability. This allows to objectively determine the potential of herbal medicine use, to foresee their possible side effects and to warn against their interaction with other drugs. It is essential that medicinal plants and their parts should be treated as a whole of biologically active substances. A lot of resources are allocated annually to the development of new herbal preparations and research of new plants, analysis of their chemical composition, pharmacological toxicological action, and interaction of plants with other medicinal drugs. By interacting with regulatory systems of the organism, herbal drugs inhibit or stimulate them and primarily affect subjective symptoms. Herbal medicine must be individually prescribed according to the peculiarities of the patient’s ailment and body. Herbal medicine can evoke reactions of the body, which depend on individual characteristics of the patient and on effect of the herbal drugs. There must be no doubts, though, that this medicine is better tolerated and its side effects are considerably milder that those of synthetic preparations. This can be... [to full text]
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