Abstract

Aruna V.*, Amruthavalli G. V. and Gayathri R.

ABSTRACT

In the context of herbal drugs gaining equal importance in the treatment of various diseases the present study dwells into the aspect of poly-herbal drugs vis-à-vis target specific single molecule to establish the advantage of one over the other. Our experimental research and through literature search has revealed that poly-herbal preparations will be more useful to certain medical problem like diabetes mellitus than target specific single molecule because diabetes is a medical problem itself as well as is also the chief pre-pondering factor for various other co-morbidities condition. The poly-herbal phyto constituents are diverse in their chemistry and so are their phyto-pharmaceutical benefits. Target specific drug can at best only address one of the etiology of the disease and not the associated co-morbidity conditions. Whereas the polyherbal drugs due to the diverse chemistry are likely to address spectrum of medical problems and hence are bound to be superior over target specific single molecule based drug. Details are presented in the article.