Open AccessHERBAL REMEDY FOR OSTEOSARCOMA - CHALLENGING EVOLUTION
Author(s) -
Vignesh Pichaiyan,
Sasikala Mariyappan,
Renuka Saravanan,
Sivakumar Ramalingam
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian journal of pharmaceutical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2455-3891
pISSN - 0974-2441
DOI - 10.22159/ajpcr.2018.v11i7.25706
Subject(s) - traditional medicine , medicine , phyllanthus emblica , thymoquinone , medicinal plants , biology , antioxidant , biochemistry
Bone cancer is the extremely rare type, which accounts for about 0.2% of all cancer. They metastasize the cancer cells to the bone parts which have an especially crucial mechanism of action while treating. It is treated with the advanced drugs, have effluent side effects when compared to the medicinal plants and phytoconstituents. The review effectively deals that the mechanism of action of different medicinal plants include Phyllanthus urinaria, Aralia elata, Punica granatum, Anemone altaica, and Potentilla chinensis and the phytoconstituents include corosolic acid, shikonin, thymoquinone, aloperine, and withaferin A. This review provides the detailed information about the importance of medicinal herbs in the treatment of bone cancer, besides the mechanism of action of several phytoconstituents in different cell lines used. In future, it is more useful for evaluating the treatment of bone cancer with phytoconstituents.