Role of mangroves in pharmacotherapy

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Chiradeep Basu
School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Subarna Bhattacharyya
School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Punarbasu Chaudhuri
Department of Environmental Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/bhietm.2022.e01.005

Keywords: Mangrove, traditional medicines, antibiotics, plant metabolites, bioactive compounds.

Abstract:
Mangroves are very unique, bridging salt and freshwater ecosystems and exhibiting a wide variety of flora exclusive to halophytic conditions. Local populations have relied upon the medicinal benefits of multiple parts of various trees and plants for the treatment of diseases and infections like nausea, asthma, leprosy, rheumatic pain, arthritis, skin infections etc. These bioactive and medicinal properties have developed in the plants from secondary metabolites and chemicals present in them, like saponins, tannins, flavonoids, polyphenols, glucosides etc. The essential properties of these chemicals have made them viable alternatives to chemical pharmaceutics. Although chemically manufactured medicines are more suitable for treating multiple diseases at a lower cost of production, large-scale mismanaged applications have given rise to bacterial populations which are unsusceptible to their effects and the development of antibacterial resistance in the human body. Traditional medicines have emerged as an answer to this problem by not showing any side effects of application, and with newer natural molecules being discovered progressively, they might have a big role to play in the pharmaceuticals of tomorrow.

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Chiradeep Basu, Subarna Bhattacharyya, Punarbasu Chaudhuri (2022). Role of mangroves in pharmacotherapy. © International Academic Publishing House (IAPH), B. Sarkar (eds.), The Basic Handbook of Indian Ethnobotany and Traditional Medicine,Vol. 1, pp. 62-73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/bhietm.2022.e01.005