Stakeholders Advocate Use Of Herbal Products At Acedhars Symposium In UNILAG

African Centre of Excellence for Drugs Research, Stakeholders Advocate Use Of Herbal Products At Acedhars Symposium in University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria.

The growing use of herbal medicines, issues relating to reactions to herbal drug use and challenges in monitoring safety formed part of the discussion at the Second Annual Symposium organized by the African Centre of Excellence for Drugs Research, Herbal Medicine Development and Regulatory Science (ACEDHARS), University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria.

The  Symposium which was held on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at the Faculty of Social Science Auditorium, brought together members of the university community, academia,, and captains of industry including the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mopson Pharmaceuticals, Pharm (Dr.) Michael Oyebanjo Paul.

Themed “Current and Emerging Disease: Herbal Medicine Approach”, the Keynote Speaker, Professor Olobayo Kunle averred that plants have long been recognized for their therapeutic properties. “For centuries, indigenous cultures around the world have used traditional herbal medicine to treat a myriad of maladies”.

According to him, the rise of the modern pharmaceutical industry in the past century has been based on exploiting individual active compounds with precise modes of action. This, he enumerated, has yielded highly effective drugs that are widely used in the clinic, including many natural products and analogues derived from these products, but have fallen short of delivering effective cures for complex human diseases with complicated causes, such as cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and degenerative diseases.

MySchoolNews reporting.