ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF WATER EXTRACTS OF CONIFEROUS PLANTS AND POSSIBLE WAYS OF DELIVERING ELEMENTS OF CONIFEROUS PLANTS TO THE BODY
Leveling the effects of the use of synthetic antimicrobials on the patient’s body is becoming an important part of the pharmaceutical market. Hence the idea of the effective use of antimicrobial drugs of plant origin. The fields of application of drugs based on medicinal plant raw materials are limitless: therapy, surgery, cosmetology, etc. In any medical clinic, herbalist, medical treatise of the past, the useful properties of medicinal plants, methods of preparation and application are described in detail. The task of modern science is to rediscover and learn how to use a huge natural arsenal of medicinal plants, for this there are high-tech research methods and new forms of drug delivery to the body. In accordance with the study of this subject, it is clear that the antibacterial properties of coniferous plants have been known to mankind for a long time. Mentions of water infusions from needles are quite common in the works on medical care of various epochs and regions. Modern science turns to natural antibacterial agents as an alternative source of combating numerous infections that do not cause resistance, like synthetic antibiotics. Aqueous solutions of coniferous plants have antibacterial properties, their use has practically no contraindications, it is possible to use biologically active substances of coniferous plants in the form of food, beverages, as well as as means of external use. The possibilities of modern science have increased many times, tablet and liquid forms of medicines are replaced, for example, by “smart” capsules that release medicinal substances in the “right” part of the intestine. The authors suggest that aqueous extracts of coniferous plants can be used in hydrogels for external use as an antibacterial agent. Aqueous solutions of coniferous plants have antibacterial properties, their use has practically no contraindications, it is possible to use biologically active substances of coniferous plants in the form of food, beverages, as well as as means of external use. In this article we introduce the concept of using hydrogels enriched with aqueous extracts of coniferous plants for surface use in the treatment of wound processes.