ABSTRACT

We are using herbs as a medical treatment since beginning of civilization and some derivatives (eg. Reserpine, digitalis, and asprin) have become mainstays of human pharmacotherapy. Patients with congestive heart failure, systolic hypertension, angina pectoris, atherosclerosis, venous insufficiency, arthythmia can use herbal treatments for cardiovascular diseases. However many herbal remedies used to day have not undergone careful scientific assessment and some have the potential to cause serious toxic effects and major durg to drug interactions. Nature is very crutial source for finding various drugs that leads to the treatment of disease. Famous drugs from herbal and plants sources include aspirin from Salix alba L. tree, digoxin (cardiac glycoside) from Digitalis purpurea, and so on…. In1985 WHO estimated that’s around 65% of world population mostly depended on plant derived traditional medicines. This article will be focusing on the plant and plant products which we use to treat cardiovascular diseases keeping in mind that plant based medicines are cheaper alternative with fewer side effects. Keywords: Cadiovascular diseases, Medicinal plants, Hypertension, Angina pectoris, Conginitive heart failure, Venous insufficiency
Publication date: 01/10/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.10.6467