Medicinal plants in the management of environment-related diseases: Opportunities and challenges

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1 Associate Professor, Andijan State Medical Institute, 1Yu.Atabekov Str., Andijan Region, Uzbekistan

2 Associate Professor of the Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan

3 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Technical Sciences, Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute, Uzbekistan

4 Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology, Uzbekistan

5 Doctoral Student, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan

6 Assistant of the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Tashkent State Medical University, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan

7 DSc, Professor, Tashkent Pharmaceuticals Institute, Department of Industrial Technology of Medicines, Uzbekistan

8 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, National Research University, English Language Department, Teacher, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

9 Assistant, Department of Orthopaedic Dentistry and Orthodontics, Bukhara State Medical Institute, Bukhara City, Uzbekistan

10 Associate Assistant of the Department of Orthopaedic Dentistry and Orthodontics of the Bukhara State Medical Institute, Bukhara City, Uzbekistan

11 Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Science, Associate Professor of the Мining Department of the Almalyk Branch of the Scientific Research Technological University «MISIS»

12 PhD, Karshi State Technical University, Republic of Uzbekistan

10.22124/cjes.2025.9044

Abstract

Environmental diseases pose a double threat—as such diseases affect the general population or affect only a very small segment of it-they continue to be recognized as one of the biggest health hazards in the world. Changes in respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and metabolic diseases all fall into this never-ending category. Diseases may be directly or indirectly caused by environmental pollution through mechanisms such as oxidative stress, inflammatory response, mitochondrial dysfunction, immune disturbance, or even epigenetic transformation. Medicinal plants and their phytochemicals offer the possibility of treatment since their actions on physiological systems are many and varied, have been proven to be safe at appropriate doses, and almost all have been used by humans practically since the beginning of civilization for medicine. This review will cover the mechanistic basis of phytochemicals counteracting pathological responses to toxicants, examples of their incorporation into pharmacy practice, and obstacles to their enabling actual use in clinical applications.

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