Veteriner Farmakoloji ve Toksikoloji Derneği Bülteni

Yazarlar: İsmail KURHAN, Hüsamettin EKİCİ

Konular:Veteriner Hekimlik

DOI:10.38137/vftd.900797

Anahtar Kelimeler:Cancer,Complementary and Alternative Medicines,Herbal Medicine,Phytotherapy

Özet: Phytotherapy is one of the most frequently used treatment methods, especially by cancer patients. In this review, the relation of phytotherapy with cancer and its preference in addition to the use of pharmacological drugs in cancer types were evaluated. The literature was reviewed in terms of phytotherapy studies published between 2000-2021. The data were obtained by searching the words “complementar-alternative medicines, phytotherapy, herbal medicine, cancer” in databases such as “Pubmed and Siencedirect”. It has been observed that phytotherapy is widely used in Far East countries such as China and South Korea, and its use is around 90% in Palestine within the borders of Mesopotamia where it was first applied. The reasons for this are the side effects of traditional medical methods and pharmacological drug use. Besides, the increase in the prevalence rates in cancer cases supports this trend. World cancer cases in 2020 are listed as breast, lung, colo-rectal, and deaths as lung, colo-rectal, liver regardless of gender. Phytotherapy continues to be applied rapidly all over the world despite its unpredictable side effects. Especially the presence of diseases such as cancer that modern medicine cannot fully cure triggers this. As a result, uncontrolled use of herbal medicine creates threats in traditional treatments, and this situation encourages countries to make legal regulations. Thing to do is to determine the pharmacological and toxicological parameters of the plants used in phytotherapy applications, ıt is to establish the standards of herbal medicines in terms of quality, safety and efficacy with the determined parameters.

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