Dear Sonia,
I appreciate your very interesting question. Plants, microbes, and animals are used to prepare the medicines that are used to save the life of the patients.
In Ayurvedic medicines, plants are most commonly used.
Stay safe and healthy.
Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal
These are the three natural sources of medicines. I am a microbiologist, so of course it is expected that I would very naturally go for microbes. But come to think of it; anti-microbials, anti-tumor and anticancer agents, anti-helminthic, and the rest, steroids and other hormones, recombinant proteins of all kinds, vitamins, amino acids etc. Just what won't microbes produce. All we need is bio-prospect and then exploit.
hi,
It depends on the type of medicine. Plants components which are mainly phytochemicals, bioactive molecules, or natural compounds either they as extracted directly as natural products or their structure of the compound goes for further chemical synthesis. Our 70% of chemical drug structures derived from the plant.
For biologics and biosimilar, the preference is animal cells (cell culture). For example, monoclonal antibodies, mammalian cell lines such as CHO cells are being used.
For antibiotics, enzymes, some proteins, the microbes are preferred through fermentation tech.
For Antibodies and other proteins, big animals involved i.e, from their blood.
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Saurabh
Dear Sonia,
I appreciate your very interesting question. Plants, microbes, and animals are used to prepare the medicines that are used to save the life of the patients.
In Ayurvedic medicines, plants are most commonly used.
Stay safe and healthy.
Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal
It is estimated that more than 25% of all the medicines available today are derived from tropical plants.
Most antibiotics are made by bacteria that live in soil. Actinomycetes such as Streptomyces produce tetracyclines, erythromycin, streptomycin, rifamycin and ivermectin. Bacillus and Paenibacillus species produce bacitracin and polymyxin.
http://textbookofbacteriology.net/bacteriology_6.html
Microorganisms are used in large scale manufacturing of vaccines against diseases like influenza flu, polio, BCG etc. with the evolution of sophisticated technology, identification of specific antigens is being done easily which further helps in development of vaccines with the help of microorganisms.
https://www.omicsonline.org/conferences-list/applications-of-microbes-in-medicine-agriculture-and-biotechnology
Phytochemicals from plants have been used as drugs since earlier times in one form or other. Phytochemicals are the naturally occuring chemical compounds in plants. The term is generally used to refer to those chemicals which are of plant origin and that may affect health, but are not yet established as essential nutrients. ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259810058_Role_of_Phytochemicals_in_Modern_Medicine_An_Insight
Phytochemicals from plants have been used in both modern and traditional medicines
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochemical
Plants are most commonly used. Also, microorganisms are potential sources of natural antioxidants, immuno-suppressants, enzyme inhibitors, hypocholesterolemic agents, vitamins, enzymes, and antibiotics.
In general, plants and microbes are largely used in medicine, but plants and phytochemicals from plants are used more than microbes
Traditional medicine, which is used by nearly a billion people worldwide, rely on medicinal plants (herbs). Traditional medicine is largely preferred for treatment in many parts of the world, especially in Africa, South East Asia, South America, etc.
All of them. Actually it depends upon the active ingredients in each of them.
Plants, due to the their phytohemical components, represent an important source in pharmaceutical industry.
Plants are most used in medicinal preparation compared to animals and microbes. Most drugs used for medicinal purposes are synthesized or extracted from plants sources.
You may not believe it when you learn the application of plant and its phytochemicals in modern and traditional medicines. Also, microbes are widely used in medicine too. But phytochemicals are used more than microbes
Drug discovery and therapeutic medicines rely on phytochemicals from medicinal plants. Elsevier currently published a book on drug discovery. In fact, the book was based on use of mainly phytochemicals in medicine
Almost drugs are originated from plants. They are extracted from plants or changed in molecular structure for easy absorption from the human gut.
Most of the medicines are made by plants. In my opinion plants are used most for medicine.
Dear all, in a decreasing order: plants, animals, and microbes, but more than 80% of drugs are purely synthetic (chemically synthesized). My Regards
Substantially, most drugs draw on inherent properties of plants so that herbal medicine has established itself as a prestigious subject in the field of medicine.
Dear Abdelkader Bouazizi,
In the recent years wihle green chemistry is devloped and Steel devloping, the use of plants for drugs synthesis is the moste synthesis method used.
Dear Hodhaifa Derdar, yes that's true but still it counts less than 20%. Big international drug compagnies do not tolerate any competition by phytochemicals, and this is the main brake acting against green chemistry. In fact, international compagnies have their own meaning to the concept of green chemistry, in short they are again synthetic chemicals that have minimun of side effects on livings. My Regards
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