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| Title: | Ethno biological usage of zoo products in rheumatoid arthritis |
| Authors: | Gomes, Antony
Alam, Md. Aftab
Bhattacharya, Sourav
Dasgupta, Subir Chandra
Mukherjee, Sanghamitra
Bhattacharya, Shamik
Gomes, Aparna |
| Keywords: | Alternative medicine
Rheumatoid arthritis
Traditional medicine
Zoo products |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) is one of the most common autoimmune disorder which causes
swelling, redness, pain, stiffness, restriction of limb movements, decreases
life expectancy and early death of the patients. Available drugs include non
steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesics, disease modifying anti-rheumatic
drugs and steroids (glucocorticoids etc). All these drugs have their own
limitations such as gastrointestinal irritations, cardiovascular problems, and
drug dependency. Search for alternative therapy from natural products are being
ventured throughout the world. Zoo therapy in arthritis, a common practice of
the ancient times that have been mentioned in traditional and folk medicine.
The scientific basis of some of the zoo products are being explored and have
been showing promising results in experimental rheumatoid arthritis. These
therapies have minimum side effects and many of them have potential to give
rise to drug development clues against rheumatoid arthritis. The present review
is an effort to establish the folk and traditional treatment of rheumatoid
arthritis using zoo products. |
| Page(s): | 565-573 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print) |
| Source: | IJEB Vol.49(08) [August 2011]
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