Treatment of fungal Candida infections with natural origin medicines.

Natural medicines and in specially herbs spices and extracts for treatment of various diseases were the first medicines used from immemorial times. In treatment of fungal infection the traditional medicine provide a lot of possible extracts from plants with proved effects to cure superficial infections. This work reviews shortly the main remedies from alternative medicine used in different traditional and modern medicine from all over the world and new researches on the efficiency of the old methods of treatment against Candida infections. One of the targets of this paper is to describe the most interesting and active plant extracts in order to be use as alternatives to chemical antifungal products, in treatments against Candida species infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]