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Herbal anesthetic agents: An overview on sources, uses and future perspectives

I. Bhardwaj,Maya Sharma

Published 2019 in Asian Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

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Herbs are annual, biennial or perennial seed-producing softstem plants that exhibit medicinal or aromatic and antioxidant properties (Charde et al., 2011). Historically, herbs have also been used to produce anesthesia. Dioscorides the Greek military physician described the drinking of mandrake by patients to cause insensibility during surgery. He used the word anesthesia for first time. Hua Tao, the Chinese physician and surgeon prescribed the herbal anesthetic mafesian with wine to render patients unconscious before performing operations (Cheng et al., 2002; Tripathi et al., 2008).

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