ABSTRACT

Phytomedicines are attracting great interest nowadays due to the fact that they can treat various diseases with less toxic effects and great medicinal properties. Nanotechnology means designing and developing the technology by controlling the structure and properties of the material at a nanometer scale. Nanomedicine involves implementations such as targeted delivery of drugs, drugs and therapy, biomaterials, in vitro diagnostics, in vivo imaging, and active implants. Phytomedicines have been used routinely around the world for a long time and have been preferred by patients and doctors for therapeutic purposes as they have lower side effects compared to synthetic drugs. Liposomes, microscopic and spherical vesicles consisting of one or more phospholipid bilayers divided by an aqueous medium, form unilamellar or multilamellar vesicles. In addition to having many advantages, conventional liposomes have some disadvantages such as drug loading effectiveness, drug entrapment performance, poor targeting ability, short blood circulation time, and lack of physical and biological stability.