Literature Review On Unorganized Herbal Drugs in Siddha Medicine

Abstract

Unorganized drugs are crude drugs of plant and animal origin and have no cellular structure(Acellular drugs). They are either mixture of chemical substances or decomposition products. Unorganized drugs are classified under heading based on their origin and nature, giving well characterized groups, such as Resin and resin combinations, Gums, Dried lattices, dried juices, waxes, dried extracts, oils and fat.In Siddha medicine, there are so many unorganized crude drugs used. Both the plant and animal products are used in order to treat many diseases. There are many therapeutic formulations available by using unorganized drugs. The aim of this study is to find distribution of unorganized herbal drugs and list out their uses and its medicinal formulations in selected siddha literatures and the objectives are to review and document the medicinal uses and its related medicinal preparation of unorganized herbal drug in Siddha medicine and to give the awareness and detailed knowledge about the importance of unorganized herbal drugs among people.The data were collected from Government Siddha medical college library, Palayamkottai during the period of April 2019 to August 2019 and categorized by using MS excels. According to result totally 95 Unorganized herbal drugs (Gums and Resins-29, Lattices-27, oil-26, Extract-13) were found in selected Siddha classical literatures. All of them have their specific pharmacological uses and some of them used as food supplements. Their uses and actions more or less similar to organized herbal drugs. So we should concentrate on these types of drugs utilization and standardization. Also we can able to protect endangered plant species by using unorganized drugs instead of organized drugs. Further researches should be conducted on unorganized herbal drugs to gain confidence over the siddhar’s natural discipline. Thus it can be done successfully through holistic principles of traditional siddha literatures.