Herbal extracts in Novel Drug Delivery System: A Magical Combo: A Brief Review

Abstract

Novel drug delivery system is a system which overcomes out the limitation of the herbal or traditional drug delivery system. The novel drug delivery technology used in the herbal plant based medicine boost up the efficacy and decreasing the side effect of herbal drugs. Drug delivery system of herbal medicine is an ancient technique used by our ancestors for curing and recovering. Due to the introduction of new allopathic and homeopathic medicine herbal system become out-of-date resulting in reducing efficacy of the drug. Herbal medicines improved by novel drug delivery system become able to combat more serious disease easily. Due to lack of scientific justification and research development of herbal drug Novel formulation growth was Because of improper standardization, extraction, identification of individual drug, complex Polyherbal system etc. This problem becomes can be solved by the application of the Modern phyto-pharmaceutical research which can also help for improved pharmacokinetics of the herbal medicines and better understanding of mechanism of action. The incorporation of NDDS such as nanoparticles, microemulsions, matrix systems, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticle, solid dispersions, etc. can also be useful for site specific drug delivery.