A plethora of novel natural products are continuously discovered. Many of them display important bioactive effects, particularly for applications in human medicine, but very few have a pharmaceutical destiny. In my opinion researchers in the field should engender a cooperative effort in order to introduce this missing ring in the chain.
The problem I have discovered is that many claims on the effectiveness of many traditional herbs are actually not true. Then many Scientist get discourage when they do research on herbs and continue to get negative results. The easiest way to avoid this kind of negative feelings, would be to do research on herbs using the reverse Pharmacology approach so that you identify what is promising and develop it further. I do believe there are actually very useful drug leads in natural products yet undiscovered.
Another important thing is also needed to be considered: "how to fight the existing drug market, which many big companies would like to buy your findings and put them on shelves"
I do agree with Zhu. Natural products will always find it hard to get to the market because of the effects of Big companies. But if we can discover those that are efficacious just like the conventional drugs, then they will always find their ways especially if they are less toxic.
I am agree with Zhu. the big companies have the most part of the drugs that are in use therefore it is very difficult to find a new drug that can reach to this level. On the other hand is necessary an intermediate between the scientifist who develop a new drug and the application, in a traditionary lab (institutional) is very difficult to do experiments with drug in animals to see the applications.
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