Natural products for the prevention and treatment of common cold and viral respiratory infections

Mammari, Nour (author), Albert, Quentin (author), Devocelle, Marc (author), Kenda, Maša (author), Kočevar Glavač, Nina (author), Sollner Dolenc, Marija (author), Mercolini, Laura (author), Tóth, Jaroslav (author), Nagy, Milan (author), Czigle, Szilvia (author), Varbanov, Mihayl (author)

The common cold is generally considered a usually harmless infectious disease of the upper respiratory pathway, with mostly mild symptoms. However, it should not be overlooked, as a severe cold can lead to serious complications, resulting in hospitalization or death in vulnerable patients. The treatment of the common cold remains purely symptomatic. Analgesics as well as oral antihistamines or decongestants may be advised to relieve fever, and local treatments can clear the airways and relieve nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, or sneezing. Certain medicinal plant specialties can be used as therapy or as complementary self-treatment. Recent scientific advances discussed in more detail in this review have demonstrated the plant’s efficiency in the treatment of the common cold. This review presents an overview of plants used worldwide in the treatment of cold diseases.

• Language: English
• Keywords: herbal medicines, medicinal plants, common colds, therapy, infectious disease, analgesics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 25 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 16, iss. 5, art. 662
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-145649
• UDC: 582:615.322
• ISSN on article: 1424-8247
• DOI: 10.3390/ph16050662
• COBISS.SI-ID: 150737667

Note

V članku na koncu seznama avtorjev navedeno: "and on behalf of the OEMONOM". (Datum opombe: 5. 5. 2023)

• Publication date in RUL: 04.05.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pharmaceuticals
• Shortened title: Pharmaceuticals
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8247
• COBISS.SI-ID: 517582617

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: zeliščna zdravila, pogosti prehladi, terapija, nalezljive bolezni, zdravilne rastline, analgetiki

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships
• Project number: 2020-1-CZ01-KA203-078218
• Name: Open Access Educational Materials on Naturally Occurring Molecules
• Acronym: OEMONOM