Dr. Salman Ahmed

Zootherapeutics (animal-based remedies) for urolithiasis: history, current scenario and future dimensions

• Authors Details :  
• Salman Ahmed,  
• Maaz Uddin Ahmed Siddiqui,  
• Imran Ahsan Mallick,  
• Muhammad Mohtasheemul Hasan

Journal title : Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

Publisher : AkiNik Publications

Online ISSN : 2278-4136

Page Number : 08-11

Journal volume : 10

Journal issue : 2

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Animals like plants are also medicinal agents for preventing and curing different health problems worldwide, practically in all human cultures. Zootherapy is ancient and has strong evidence of the medicinal use of animal resources. Different animal body parts and preparations are used in folk medicines. Zootherapy reveals that medical practitioners have always considered animals a source of surprising and numerous therapeutic effects. A high diversity of animals, their parts, and derivative products are used, and this is a heritage that could constitute a fundamental step in the discovery and isolation of natural extracts and new and low-cost alternative drugs from animals. About 12% of people worldwide are affected by different types of urolithiasis; the recurrence rate in females is 47-60%, and in males is 70-80%. According to WHO, 75% of the population relies on traditional medicines to prevent and cure diseases. Hence, there is a need to concentrate on all folk natural products effective in urolithiasis for their pharmacological evaluation and isolation of single drug molecules responsible for anti-urolithiasis activity to develop suitable formulations against urolithiasis.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.22271/phyto.2021.v10.i2a.13666

Article Subject Details

• Health Science
• Medicine
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacology and toxicology
• Pharmacy

Article Keywords Details

• urolithiasis
• Medicinal uses
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacy
• Phytochemistry
• Zootherapy

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