• A REVIEW ON HEPATOPROTECTIVE HERBS IN SIDDHA SYSTEM OF MEDICINE

Abstract

Siddha system is one of the oldest systems practiced since 4000 years in India. Siddha system is not only a Traditional science but also an Art of Living. This article addressed in bringing out the Siddha medicinal herbs with hepatoprotective activity, which is already given in our Siddha literature. Here we have taken the vital and overwhelming organ, “Liver”. Death due to liver diseases has been ranked as top tenth common cause across worldwide. About 3200 death per year due to alcoholic liver diseases and one death per day in India due to hepatic diseases. The above said statistics had emphasized the seriousness of liver diseases and its treatment. In our Siddha system we have enormous medicinal plants which are used for treating liver diseases. Many Siddha medicinal plants posses’ effective hepato protector activity, but still needs more scientific evidence and research documentations. In this review article attempt has been made about hepatoprotective plants from Siddha system of medicine and may be useful to health professionals, scientists, scholar working in the field of pharmacology, therapeutics and pharmacognosy to widen data based Indian medicine to cure and carry out unusual kinds of liver ailments.