Prospects for Production of Microencapsulated Medicines Based on Plant Extracts (Review)

Material devoted to the peculiarities of plant extract microencapsulation used for the development and production of drugs and active substances with pharmacological activity is reviewed. The advantages of some microencapsulation methods of plant extracts are shown: emulsification (dispersion), coacervation, ionic gelation, spray and freeze drying, solvent evaporation, extrusion, fluidized bed microencapsulation. The parameters for choosing an encapsulation method for plant extracts were determined. Possible prospects for microencapsulation technology of plant extracts were described. Domestic and foreign literature sources in the public domain were analyzed using the electronic databases PubMed, e-Library, and CyberLeninka and Google Scholar search engine.