Abstract :
As per the literature, medicinal plants are used in the prevention and treatment of various chronic diseases
including Swine flu. The therapeutic properties of various medicinal plant products are reported and also showed
structure activity relationship of some important and potentially useful plant based formulations for preclinical or
clinical evaluation. In-depth information of these medicinal plant products which provides lot of information about
some active components and used in the form of antioxidants, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, analgesic, anticancer,
antidepressant, antiasthma, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory agents and also used as immunomodulators. In view of
this, we focused on one of these diseases especially Swine flu that are highly prevalent in India. In 2015-2016, lot of
swine flu cases were reported and few of them were survived after treatment. Recently, researchers start focusing on
various medicinal plant products in order to reduce the burden of infectious disease i.e. swine flu. In the present
study, we mentioned about some medicinal plants that are required for eliminating swine flu disease.
Keyword :
Medicinal plants; swine flu; infectious disease