• Praveen Tahilani
• Dr. Hemant Swami
• Dr. Nirmal Dongare

Pulmonary Drug Delivery is an innovative and challenging area of pharmaceutical research. It is primarily used to treat conditions of the airways, delivering locally acting drugs directly to their site of action. These routes of drug delivery may give the advantages like a small amount of drug, less adverse reaction and rapid onset of action. Pulmonary drug delivery can be used as an alternative to oral delivery. These systems can be best utilized for both local and systemic actions. Pulmonary delivery may be used for a wide range of drugs. It is a needle-free technique. The origin of inhaled therapies seen in back 4000 years ago to India, where people smoked the leaves of the Atropa belladonna plant to suppress a cough. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, asthmatics smoked asthma cigarettes that contained stramonium powder mixed with tobacco to treat the symptoms of their disease. But the administration of drugs by the pulmonary route is technically challenging because oral deposition can be high, and variation in inhalation techniques can affect the quantity of a drug delivered to the lungs. Pulmonary drug delivery remains the preferred route for administration of various drugs. It is an important research area which impacts the treatment of illnesses including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and various diseases. Due advancement in application nowadays Pulmonary drug delivery is used to treat Diabetes, angina pectoris, cancer, bone disorders, migraine, tuberculosis, acute lung injury and others. In this article, we summarize the outline of this dosage form.

Pulmonary drug delivery, Lungs, Inhalation therapy, Propellant, Drug delivery device

"Pulmonary Drug Delivery- A Novel Approach for Drug Delivery (A Review)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.f6-f20, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209522.pdf

"Pulmonary Drug Delivery- A Novel Approach for Drug Delivery (A Review)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppf6-f20, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209522.pdf