ABSTRACT:
Using herbal sources for treatment has gained popularity in recent years as the synthetic drugs have reported huge number of adverse reactions. People across the globe are consuming the traditional medications for relief and treatment. Even some population of the developing countries was facing problem to afford the synthetic drugs or medicines and therefore, totally depend on the traditional source of medicine, especially the origin part for maintaining the need of primary health care. As synthetic drugs target the symptoms which are caused by specific diseases whereas herbal source does not generally involved drug action or drug effects and also act gently. Many herbal sources were used to treat pyrexia and have been confirmed scientifically. In this paper we have collected information about all the potential sources for treating pyrexia the information collected from Pubmed, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Wiley. The paper further discusses the serious adverse reaction reported by synthetic drugs and their associated complication. So, this review paper focuses on traditionally used medicine like tulsi, neem, ginger, giloy, black pepper, amla, cinchona, milk thistle, sadodi, and bakain. It would further suggestion to perform by isolating an individual active constituent or by preparing herbal formulation using multiple antipyretic drugs to produce a synergistic effect or produce an efficient medicine (herbal) for curing pyrexia.