Nanophytomedicine: Concept to Clinic

Nanotechnology has the potential to overcome numerous shortcomings associated with conventional phytotherapeutics. Notable steps have been taken towards the reinforcement of nanophytomedicine in the treatment of a variety of illnesses with high specificity, sensitivity, and efficiency. It also improves and overcomes the biopharmaceutical challenges involved with phytomedicine. Phytomedicine/herbal medicine has been practiced and used by humans for thousands of years because of their healing potential. The faith and assumption that the medicines from the herbal origin are much more reliable and safer than synthetic drugs have earned demand in recent years and managed a tremendous growth of phytopharmaceuticals. For optimized and better acceptability of herbal medicine over synthetic medicine, the equivalent robust scientific and clinical approaches should be applied. Also, there is an urgent need to develop a validated therapeutic, safety, and toxicity profile associated with herbal medicine to avoid any potential side effects. In the contemporary chapter, we endeavored to provide a short overview of application of nanotechnology approaches in the development of herbal-based remedy as well as also highlight the current situation and prospects. M. A. Barkat · Harshita (*) Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Hafr Al-Batin, Hafr Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia S. S. Das Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India S. Beg · F. J. Ahmad Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, Delhi, India # Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 S. Beg et al. (eds.), Nanophytomedicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4909-0_1 1