Network Pharmacology: An Emphasis on Traditional Chinese Medicines and Its Adaptability for Ayurveda Medicines in India

Abstract

Network pharmacology is expanding as a comprehensive paradigm and becoming a breakthrough research topic of pharmaceutical research by providing an extraordinary potential for the comprehensive examination of conventional treatments. The development of network pharmacology has paved the way for the implementation of the complex phytochemical constituents found in diverse natural products. Network pharmacology is a burgeoning field of study that has linked its legs not just to Traditional Chinese Medicine, but also to other natural products, herbs, and ayurvedic medicine. By being a multidisciplinary area that includes network biology, system pharmacology, and even omics, it has demonstrated its unimaginable potential for future research. It is, in particular, a network-based science. Natural products have long served an important role in the advancement of pharmaceutical research, with all the supplementary immense expertise that has yet to be demonstrated, which can be established with the help of this application, which in turn may demonstrate the potential of these natural products to be multitargets, multicomponent characteristics of them rather than the solitary target that is becoming a dilemma in developing drugs. In this review paper, we summarised the notion of network pharmacology and discussed the newer features of how this concept might be used to natural products as well as drug discovery.