Natural Products and Medicinal Plants Research

Challenges and Future Innovations of Traditional Medicine

The main challenges affecting this practice are stigmatization due to poor perceptions and attitudes, inadequate efforts to conserve medicinal plants and indigenous knowledge, modernization, exploitation of communities that own the knowledge, issues on safety, efficacy, and quality, access, irrational use of herbal . Any variations in the above factors affect the nature of the drug resulting in the alteration of the number of active constituents present in the herbs which becomes challenging while formulating herbal cosmetics.