Natural Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Common Cold and Viral Respiratory Infections
Year: 2023
Type: review
Abstract: The common cold is generally considered a usually harmless infectious disease of the upper respiratory pathway, with mostly mild symptoms. However, it should not be overlooked, as a severe cold can lead to serious complications, resulting in hospitalization or death in vulnerable patients. The treatment of the common cold remains purely symptomatic. Analgesics as well as oral antihistamines or decongestants may be advised to relieve fever, and local treatments can clear the airways and relieve nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, or sneezing. Certain medicinal plant specialties can be used as therapy or as complementary self-treatment. Recent scientific advances discussed in more detail in this review have demonstrated the plant's efficiency in the treatment of the common cold. This review presents an overview of plants used worldwide in the treatment of cold diseases.
Source: Pharmaceuticals
DOI: 10.3390/ph16050662
Authors: Nour Mammari, Quentin Albert, Marc Devocelle, Maša Kenda, Nina Kočevar Glavač, Marija Sollner Dolenc, Laura Mercolini, Jaroslav Tóth, Nagy Milan, Szilvia Czigle, Mihayl Varbanov, on behalf of the OEMONOM
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Lorrain de Chimie Moléculaire, Université de Lorraine, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Biodiversité et Biotechnologie Fongiques, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre, University of Ljubljana, University of Bologna, Comenius University Bratislava, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Nancy
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,864
Funders: European Commission, Erasmus+
Awards: G1756039910, G4974321089
OpenAlex ID: W4367298428