Chanda Silpi, Tiwari Raj Kumar, Kumar Arun, Singh Kuldeep
Pharmacy Institute, NIET, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sanskar College of Pharmacy & Research, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Adv Pharmacol Sci. 2019 Jan 14;2019:6908716. doi: 10.1155/2019/6908716. eCollection 2019.
Nutraceuticals are the pharmaceutically blended products that possess both nutritional as well as the medicinal value. Such a product is designed to improve the physical health, fight against day-to-day challenges such as stress, increase longevity, etc. Nowadays, emphasis is given to those herbs which are used as food and medicine due to its greater acceptance. Due to dynamic action, the popularity of nutraceuticals among people as well as healthcare providers has been increased over medicines and health supplements. This review documents herbs with a wide variety of therapeutic values such as immunity booster, antidiabetic, anticancer, antimicrobial, and gastroprotective. These herbs could be better options to formulate as nutraceuticals. Several nutraceuticals are described based on their availability as food, chemical nature, and mechanism of action.
营养保健品是兼具营养和药用价值的药物混合产品。这类产品旨在改善身体健康,应对日常挑战如压力,延长寿命等。如今,由于其更易被接受,人们更关注那些用作食物和药物的草药。由于其动态作用,营养保健品在人们以及医疗保健提供者中的受欢迎程度超过了药品和健康补充剂。本综述记录了具有多种治疗价值的草药,如免疫增强剂、抗糖尿病、抗癌、抗菌和胃保护作用。这些草药可能是制成营养保健品的更好选择。基于它们作为食物的可获得性、化学性质和作用机制描述了几种营养保健品。