Abstract

BENEFITS OF NANOPARTICALS IN DRUG DELIVERY OF HERBAL DRUG COMPONENTS: A REVIEW

Dr. Kalpana Teware*

ABSTRACT

Now a day’s Nano-particles are widely used in drug delivery system to make treatment fast and sophisticated. Nanoparticles are very small size of particles ranges are of scale 1- 1000 nanometers. These nano particles are studied under the branch of nanotechnology. These are very important in the field of medicine and drug delivery in our day to day life. As we know herbal extract and drug are highly used now a day so in this field also nanotechnology can be useful. Nanotechnology can be used further inside the body for the drug delivery. Nanotechnologies in the way of nano-particles are used in our day to day life in each and every field of life as medicine, computing medicine, sunscreens, Biosensors and enzyme encapsulations. Herbals drug are used widely in cleaning glass, antibacterial socks and sunscreens. When biology combines with the nanotechnology it is expected to revolutionize the biomedical research by exploring the various interesting phenomenon and properties of the nanoparticles (10 -9 m) presents in the herbals extracts. This technology will help to develop the cost effective diagnostic kits and treatment. Nanoparticles based drug delivery system has a great potential over the traditional drug. The nano carriers have been made of safe materials, including synthetic biodegradable polymers, lipids, and polysaccharides. In phyto-formulation research, developing nano dosage forms (Polymeric Nanoparticles [Nanospheres and Nanocapsules], Liposomes, Proliposomes, Solid Lipid Nanoparticles [SLNs], Nanoemulsion, etc.) has large number of advantages for herbal drugs, including enhancement of solubility and bioavailability, protection from toxicity, enhancement of pharmacological activity, enhancement of stability, improving tissue macrophages distribution, sustained delivery, protection from physical and chemical degradation, etc. Use of nanoparticles can bring revolution in the field of treatment of various diseases as cancer and tuberculosis.

Keywords: Nanoparticles, drug delivery, herbal drug.