• Mukta Gupta
• Naresh Singh Gillc
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Malaria is a disease caused by parasite i.e. female anopheles Plasmodium falciparum and is the major cause of death worldwide. Current therapy for treatment of malaria includes 4-aminoquinolines (chloroquine, amodiaquine); 8-aminoquinones (primaquine, tafenoquine); 4-methanolquinolines (mefloquine); antifolates (pyrimethamine); naphthoquinone (atovaquone); non-antifolate antibiotics (clindamycin, doxycycline, azithromycin, fosmidomycin).11 All pharmacological agents used for malaria treatment possess many demerits and also lack specificity. Approximately 80 percent of the world's population depends on herbal remedies because of more safety and less disadvantages reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Some of the important natural products reported to possess ant malarial activity includes Cinchona zeylenicum, Artemesia annua, Clerodendrum viscosumm, Cymbopogen citrates, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Capsicum frutescence and Azadiracchita indica. In present date, many researches are performed on medicinal, herbal and natural products globally for the treatment and prevention of malaria. Although a number of herbal medicines are recommended for malaria, further research is required investigate their safety, efficacy, and potential drug interactions.

Malaria; Herbal products; Plasmodium falciparum

"PLANT DERIVED ANTIMALARIAL AGENTS: NEW LEADS AND EFFICIENT PHYTOMEDICINES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.242-255, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06030.pdf

"PLANT DERIVED ANTIMALARIAL AGENTS: NEW LEADS AND EFFICIENT PHYTOMEDICINES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp242-255, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06030.pdf