The worldwide trend of using botanical drugs and strategies for developing global drugs

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Title
The worldwide trend of using botanical drugs and strategies for developing global drugs
Author(s)
Kyung Seop Ahn
Bibliographic Citation
BMB Reports, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 111-116
Publication Year
2017
Abstract
Natural product drugs, or botanical drugs, are drugs composed of natural substances which have constituents with healthenhancing or medicinal activities. In Korea, government-led projects brought attention to botanical drugs invigorating domestic botanical drug industry. Foreign markets, as well, are growing bigger as the significance of botanical drugs stood out. To follow along with the tendency, Korea puts a lot of effort on developing botanical drugs suitable for global market. However, standards for approving drug sales vary by countries. And also, thorough standardization, certification, clinical studies and data of these will be required as well as data confirming safety and effectiveness. Meanwhile, as an international exchange in botanical drug market continues, the importance of plant resources was emphasized. Thus countries' ownership of domestic natural resources became vital. Not only establishing a systematic method to secure domestic plant resources, but also cooperation with other countries on sharing natural resources is essential to procure natural resources effectively. Korea started to show visible results with botanical drugs, and asthma/COPD treatment made out of speedwell is one example. Sufficient investment and government's active support for basic infrastructure for global botanical drugs will bring Korea to much higher level of botanical drug development
Keyword
Botanical drugINDNatural productPlant extract bankReverse pharmacology
ISSN
1225-8687
Publisher
Korea Soc-Assoc-Inst
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5483/BMBRep.2017.50.3.221
Type
Article
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Ochang Branch Institute > Natural Product Research Center > 1. Journal Articles
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