Organization:
PSG College of Pharmacy
First Name:
Khadar
Last Name:
Bhatcha
Country:
India
E-mail:
kbhatcha@gmail.com
Phone:
+91 9600381402
Statement:
World TB Day – March 24 is a sober reminder that tuberculosis continues to be major public health concern. Appreciable advances have been made in our understanding about various facets of tuberculosis in recent times. But the drugs, that we use, are more than 30 years’ old, methods for diagnosing active tuberculosis are more than 50 years’ old, the vaccine some 80 years’ old, and the Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) for diagnosing early or latent tuberculosis is 100 years’ old.
Hence an effective and alternative anti tuberculosis drug preferably herbal based drug has to be developed. So, a new drug therapy is a global emergency especially an active medicament from plant origin is an urgent need. New drugs are required to reduce the duration and complexity of current therapy, improve treatment of MDR TB and control of latent TB (Seidel, 2008). This contagious disease TB was diagnosed in modern medicine at the beginning of 19th century after the invention of mycobacterium and the proper treatment was started from the middle of 20th century. But our ISM treats this disease from 5000 BC. by herbal drugs.
Through my research I proved two plants for their anti mycobacterial effect noted in ancient Indian records. I like to conduct a pilot study by providing herbal drinking water along with DOTs therapy.