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Effect of Medicinal Plants against Lung Cancer

  • Suhas Suresh Awati
  • , Gaurav Gupta
  • , Sarita Rawat
  • , Deepa Singh
  • , Sachchidanand Pathak
  • , Yogendra Singh
  • , Santosh Kumar Singh
  • , Ritu M. Gilhotra
  • Suresh Gyan Vihar University
  • Kasabe Digraj
  • Maharishi Arvind College of Pharmacy

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Lung cancer is a chronic disease and speaks to one of the greatest health care issues for mankind. It is an illness with a high morbidity and high demise rates. Subsequently, it is regularly connected with a plenty of affliction and general abatement in the quality of life. Just chemotherapy and radiation therapies are now and again effective and in much occasions harmful and deadly. Alternative and less toxic medicine is very considerably essential to this ailment. The goal of this study is to review the medicinal plants having antitumor activity for the management of lung cancer. Medicinal plants are presently standing out as likely wellsprings of anticancer specialists and are broadly utilized because of accessibility of the materials, generally modest, little, or no side effects, wide pertinence, and helpful adequacy which thus have quickened the scientific exploration. The study was directed with lung cancer cell line (Human), on humans and animals, and lung carcinoma (Lewis) was the maximum utilized exploratory model. In this review we have summarized some medicinal plants keep being an abundant wellspring of herbal remedies or bioactive composites against Lung cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedicinal Plants for Lung Diseases
Subtitle of host publicationA Pharmacological and Immunological Perspective
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages285-302
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9789813368507
ISBN (Print)9789813368491
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Antitumor activity
  • Lung cancer
  • Medicinal plant
  • Natural products
  • Phytoconstituents

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