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Challenge Hepatitis C with Herbs as Drugs
| Mathewa S1, Fatimab K2 and Qadric I3* | |
| 1Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
| 2IQ Institute of Infection and Immunity, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan | |
| 3King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
| Corresponding Author : | Ishtiaq Qadri King Fahd Medical Research Center King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Tel: 03344231780 E-mail: ishtiaq80262@yahoo.com |
| Received: September 30, 2015; Accepted: October 07, 2015; Published: December 17, 2015 | |
| Citation: Mathewa S, Fatimab K, Qadric I (2016) Challenge Hepatitis C with Herbs as Drugs. J Tradi Med Clin Natur 5:184. doi: 10.4172/jtmcn.1000184 | |
| Copyright: © 2016, Qadric I, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a major concern for most of the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). At present, standard therapy followed is pegylated interferon α with ribavirin but it has significant side effects and was moderately effective. Therefore, there is a necessity to introduce new drugs that interact various stages of HCV life cycle. Several herbs have been isolated for treating against HCV, and are effective in preventing HCV viral diseases. Our review précises about various mode of action of certain herbs that showed inhibition activity against HCV.
