ABSTRACT

Traditional sciences of medicines around the globe like Indian, Chinese, African have a huge potential and more natural ways for the treatment of diseases with the healing touch of mother nature and this fact is being proven by new researches in the field of herbal medicines. But the drug delivery system followed by these alternative sciences is outdated and can be improvised greatly using modern and scientific methods. Advancements have been made successfully for the improvising of drug delivery systems which generally focus on overcoming the shortcomings of conventional dosage forms like deficit lipid solubility, large molecular size, and degradation in the gastric environment of the gut, poor stability, low lipid solubility, which directly or indirectly affects the efficiency of the drug. Novel drug delivery system aids by making a drug therapeutically more efficacious and safe in comparison to already existing drug delivery systems. Phytosomes are one such novel drug delivery vehicle. The phytosomes technology has been successfully applied on many herbal drugs like curcumin, green tea, milk thistle, grape seeds etc. In this review, an attempt has been made to gather all the updated information and underscore the advantages, disadvantages, structure, characterization, methods of preparation, recent advancements pertaining to phytosomes. Keywords: Novel drug delivery system, Dosage form, Phytosomes, Phospholipid
Publication date: 01/03/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.3.5943