Abstract
Essential oils (EOs) and their compounds are becoming a growing interest in medical sciences. Despite their potential as antimicrobial, anxiolytic, cytotoxic, and immunosuppressive drugs, their chemical characteristics make them difficult to use in direct treatment. This article intends to summarize the current body of knowledge regarding drug delivery systems that can overcome obstacles, such as low water solubility, volatility, oxidation potential, photodegradation, and thermal instability of EO compounds. Various materials like zeolites, alginate, chitosan, cellulose nanomaterials, zein, poly (D,L-lactic-co-glycolic) acid, liposomes, nanoemulsions, and their modifications can help to mitigate these problems, but their utilization in medical settings is still lacking. The biggest issue in the utilization of natural compounds seems to be the very low number of clinical trials, which seriously impedes their usage despite favorable outcomes in/of in vitro experiments.
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