INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS RELATED TO HUMAN HEALTH CARE AGAINST SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS

As per the literature, medicinal plants are used in the prevention and treatment of various chronic diseases including Swine flu. The therapeutic properties of various medicinal plant products are reported and also showed structure activity relationship of some important and potentially useful plant based formulations for preclinical or clinical evaluation. In-depth information of these medicinal plant products which provides lot of information about some active components and used in the form of antioxidants, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, analgesic, anticancer, antidepressant, antiasthma, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory agents and also used as immunomodulators. In view of this, we focused on one of these diseases especially Swine flu that are highly prevalent in India. In 2015-2016, lot of swine flu cases were reported and few of them were survived after treatment. Recently, researchers start focusing on various medicinal plant products in order to reduce the burden of infectious disease i.e. swine flu. In the present study, we mentioned about some medicinal plants that are required for eliminating swine flu disease. Key words: Medicinal plants; swine flu; infectious disease