As the lifestyle diseases continue to pose health burden across the world, experts from India as well as from abroad have acknowledged the efficacy of the herbal drugs in treating the non-communicable diseases particularly diabetes which is increasing at a rapid pace.
Participating at the recently held seventh International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology here, Sitesh C Bachar, Professor and Chairman, Pharmacy Department in the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, stated that many modern medicines have been demonstrated to be strong radical scavengers but they are also carcinogenic and cause liver damage.
Bachar was among many experts from around 40 countries such as Canada and USA and representatives from the industry who were here to deliberate on the strengths of the traditional medicine system and the challenges it faces.