ABSTRACT

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent autoimmune inflammatory skin disorders. Although there is evidence of various remedies for treating psoriasis, no specific remedy allows satisfactory treatment. There are various types of therapies available to treat psoriasis but they have several side effects. As an alternative to synthetic drugs, herbal therapy has been used. Therefore we can use herbal medicines to treat psoriasis as an alternative therapy of synthetic drugs. These have a greater beneficial rate and have lesser side effects. Herbal drug delivery has a huge potential to boost the therapeutic action. Different types of herbal formulations are available in the market. The present review is therefore, an effort to give a detailed study on Indian herbal drugs used in the treatment of psoriasis which can be delivered for a long duration of time with lesser side effects. Keywords: Psoriasis; Psoriasis vulgaris; Topical agents; Biological agents; Traditional medicine; Systemic therapy
Publication date: 01/09/2020

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.9.5198