Jamil Maria, Aleem Muhammad Tahir, Shaukat Aftab, Khan Asad, Mohsin Muhammad, Rehman Tauseef Ur, Abbas Rao Zahid, Saleemi Muhammad Kashif, Khatoon Aisha, Babar Waseem, Yan Ruofeng, Li Kun
Institute of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Life (Basel). 2022 Mar 18;12(3):449. doi: 10.3390/life12030449.
Parasitic infections are a major public health concern affecting millions of people universally. This review elaborates on the potential impacts of plants and their bioactive components that have been widely used in the cure of several parasitic infections of poultry. The medicinal importance of natural herbs depends upon their bioactive ingredients, which are originated from crude plants, consequently leading to the specific action on the body. Due to the limited availability of effective drugs and high cost, the development of drug resistance in several harmful parasites and microbes leads to huge economic losses in the poultry industry. This will impose the development of innovative sources for drugs to overwhelm the therapeutic failure. Moreover, the environment-friendly feed additives which can be applied as a substitute to antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) for broilers were proven. The application of natural products with therapeutic characteristics is an ancient practice that is appropriately gaining more acceptance. Globally, it is assessed that some 20,000 species of higher plants are used medicinally, although traditional medicine has a scarcity of knowledge on its efficiency and wellbeing. This review explores the usage of medicinal herbs for parasitic infections, emphasizing the recent knowledge available while detecting the research gaps which may be explored to find the usage of herbal medicines for parasitic infections in poultry. In conclusion, herbal medicines are the effective source of prime components for drug detection and the formation of phytopharmaceuticals in the control of devastating parasitic infections. There is a prerequisite to applying the traditional medicine information in clinical applications via value addition.
寄生虫感染是一个重大的公共卫生问题，全球数百万人受到影响。本综述阐述了植物及其生物活性成分在治疗家禽多种寄生虫感染方面的潜在影响。天然草药的药用价值取决于其生物活性成分，这些成分源自天然植物，因此对身体有特定作用。由于有效药物供应有限且成本高昂，多种有害寄生虫和微生物产生耐药性，给家禽业造成巨大经济损失。这将促使开发创新的药物来源以克服治疗失败的问题。此外，已证实可将环保型饲料添加剂用作肉鸡抗生素生长促进剂（AGP）的替代品。应用具有治疗特性的天然产品是一种古老的做法，正越来越被广泛接受。在全球范围内，据估计约有20000种高等植物被用于医学，尽管传统医学对其功效和安全性了解不足。本综述探讨了药用草药在寄生虫感染治疗中的应用，强调了现有最新知识，同时发现了可能用于探索草药在家禽寄生虫感染治疗中应用的研究空白。总之，草药是药物检测和制备植物药以控制毁灭性寄生虫感染的主要成分的有效来源。通过增值将传统医学信息应用于临床是必要的。
