Herbal Liposomes: Natural Network for Targeted Drug Delivery System

Abstract

Herbal medicines have tremendous therapeutic potential that can explored across various effective drug delivery system. Decoctions, herbal teas, tinctures, glyceritum, oxymel, and use much soap, herbal tablets, herbal capsules, and herbal cream, herbal books, and prepared the confection of the most commonly available forms of dosage. The less use of herbal formulations in recent decades due to their lack of standardization. It is possible to use plant extract and isolated constituents to overcome this problem. But these phytoconstituents are suffering from drawbacks, mostly due to problems with stability and low lipid solubility. Novel drug delivery such as liposomes plays an important role in problem solving. Infact, compliance with the patient also improves. The review article discusses the recent status of new herbal liposomal formulations and describes the different ways in which these formulations are prepared.

Natural product‐based nanomedicine applied to fungal infection treatment: A review of the last 4 years

“…Due to the benefits of using LPs as a drug delivery system, the incorporation of natural products may be a promising strategy in the fight against fungal infections (Salunkhe et al, 2021). According to the data reported by the authors, the carvacrol and thymol compounds loaded into LPs exerted better antifungal activity against the tested Candida species.…”

“…Due to the benefits of using LPs as a drug delivery system, the incorporation of natural products may be a promising strategy in the fight against fungal infections (Salunkhe et al, 2021). Bezerra et al (2020) developed LPs by employing dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC, 5 mg), dipalmitoylphosphatidylserine (DPPS, 3 mg), CHOL (1 mg) as lipid fraction, and PBS (pH 7.2) as an aqueous portion, to promote the incorporation of farnesol, an important natural constituent present mainly in essential oils, and verify the effectiveness against Candida species.…”