A Review on Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Activity of Herbal Origin

Abstract

Plants and their products have been used for health and medical purposes form the very ancient times. Most of the world's population in the developing countries still depends on herbal medicines and products to meet its health demands and needs. Herbal medicines are generally used to provide first-line and basic health care, to the people of remote areas and people of poor regions. People having accesses to modern medicines still rely on herbal medicine mostly and such use is being increasingly in the recent years. Medicinal plants are important sources for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Medicinal plants and herbal medicines cater significant percentage of the pharmaceutical market. This review article focuses on the need of development of medicines from herbal origin concentrating on the development of more anti-inflammatory and analgesics agents. The products from herbal origin cause negligible of no side effects leading to the betterment of the quality of life of people.