The Pharmaceutics Department at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah organized a seminar entitled (Phytosome as a system for delivering herbal medicines)
The seminar included a lecture given by the assistant lecturer, Ola Jawad, in which she presented an idea about the phytosome delivery system for herbal medicines, as herbal medicines are used to treat many diseases with minimal side effects, but the problem lies in their lack of absorption orally and through the skin, so the phytosome system was designed by linking them with... Phospholipids
The aim of the study is to increase the absorption and bioavailability of herbal medicines and thus reduce the drug dose and side effects. Herbal medicines bind to phospholipids by forming hydrogen bonds, giving them a wide range of stability. Phytosomes have a wide application in several fields, including respiratory diseases, heart diseases, cancer, and because herbal medicines It has therapeutic activities such as antioxidants and heart protection.