I. N. Bhardwaj1, Maya Sharma2*
1Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India
2Pacific College of Pharmacy, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
*Address for Corresponding Author
Dr. Maya Sharma
Pacific College of Pharmacy, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Abstract
Herbal folk drugs are progressively using in both western and Chinese societies. This is partly attributed to the supposed limitations of scientific medicine in the cure and control of chronic diseases. Such as herbal anesthetics treatment refers to plants which are used for their anesthetic properties. A large range of plants have been found to have analgesic or anesthetic property like coca for local anesthetic effect and valerian for general anesthetic effect. Consequently anesthetics can be used as analgesics to reduce pain but analgesics can’t be used as anesthetics. Herbal folk anesthetics plants refer to herbs which are used for their anesthetic properties. A large range of plants have been reported to have analgesic or anesthetic effects, e.g. Coca, Clove, Cinchona, Dhatura, Jasmine and many more for local anesthetic effect and Valerian for general anesthetic effect. Their pharmacological diversity reflects the diverse neurochemistry and neurophysiology of pain and analgesia system in the nervous system. They have become an essential part of our medical treatment and these lead to the improvement of similar drugs with better clinical properties. This article covered some of the herbs which have been using as anesthetics along with their biological and geographical source, chemical composition, mechanism of action, and their evaluation.
Keywords: Anesthetics, mechanism of action, sensitivity, analgesic
