A review on medicinal plants as potential sources of natural immunomodulatory action

Authors

  • Omji Porwal Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Mehmet Ozdemir Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Duran Kala Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Esra Tariq Anwer Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Abstract

The concept of immunomodulation was proposed by Edward Jenner, while working on polio vaccine in 1796. A brawny, fine-functioning immune system is the keystone of excellent health. Immune replies are the consequence of an effectual interaction among innate (natural and non-specific) and acquired (adaptive and specific) components of the immune system. Inequity or failure of the immune systems is connected with a variety of chronic illness counting allergies, autoimmune diseases, cancers and furthers. Diverse innate and adaptive immune cells that are incorporated in this multifaceted networking organization may symbolize talented targets for expanding immunotherapeutics for treating specific immune illness. An assorted array of natural, synthetic, and recombinant compounds is accessible with both advantages and demerits. A range of phytochemicals have been remote, differentiated and customized for expansion and employ as avoidance or cure of human diseases, but the request of customary or novel medicinal plants for employ as immunomodulators in indulgencing immune diseases is still comparatively limited. At present, there is much-growing interest in the use of medicinal plants as modulators of the complex immune system. Numerous therapeutic consequences of plant extracts have been recommended to be because of their extensive assortment of immunomodulatory effects and persuade on the immune system of the human body. In present review paper, various medicinal plants, their resultant crude or fractionated phyto extracts and the precise phytochemicals remote from them are conversed in terms of their immunomodulatory bioactivities. We also review their possible for future expansion as immunomodulatory or inflammation-regulatory therapeutics or agents.

Keywords: Immunomodulation, Immune system, Phytochemicals, Medicinal plant, Plant extracts

Keywords:

Immunomodulation, Immune system, Phytochemicals, Medicinal plant, Plant extracts

DOI

https://doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v11i6.5125

Author Biographies

Omji Porwal, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Mehmet Ozdemir, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Duran Kala, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Esra Tariq Anwer, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of pharmacy, Tishk International University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

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Porwal O, Ozdemir M, Kala D, Anwer ET. A review on medicinal plants as potential sources of natural immunomodulatory action. J. Drug Delivery Ther. [Internet]. 2021 Nov. 15 [cited 2025 Oct. 7];11(6):324-31. Available from: https://jddtonline.info/index.php/jddt/article/view/5125

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Porwal O, Ozdemir M, Kala D, Anwer ET. A review on medicinal plants as potential sources of natural immunomodulatory action. J. Drug Delivery Ther. [Internet]. 2021 Nov. 15 [cited 2025 Oct. 7];11(6):324-31. Available from: https://jddtonline.info/index.php/jddt/article/view/5125

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