Phytosomes as Novel Drug Delivery System for Herbal Medicine ?A Review
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Amith Kumar B*, Prasanna Habbu, Thimmasetty, Lakshman, Prabha Hullatti, Ravi Kumar S
Phytomedicines, complex chemical mixtures prepared from plants, have been used for health maintenance since ancient times. But many phyto-medicines are limited in their effectiveness because they are poorly ab-sorbed when taken orally. The term “phyto” means plant while “some” means cell-like. Phytosomes are little cell like structure. This is advanced forms of herbal formulations which contains the bioactive phytoconsitu-ents of herb extract surrounds and bound by a lipid. Most of the bioac-tive constituents of phytomedicines are water-soluble compounds like flavonoids, glycosides; terpenoids in which flavonoids are a major class of bioactive compounds possesses broad therapeutic activities. Because of water soluble herbal extract and lipophilic outer layer phytosomes shows better absorption and as a result produce better bioavailability and actions than the conventional herbal extracts containing dosage form. Phytosomes are produced by a process where by the standardized plant extract or its constituents are bound to phospholipids, mainly phosphatidylcholine pro-ducing a lipidcompatible molecular complex. This study reveals that phyto-some exhibit better pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics profile than conventional herbal extracts.
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