Diet and Herbal-Derived Medicines

摘要: The popularity in utilization of the plant-based remedies has increased worldwide over last 30 years. One main reasons for this is probably belief that natural product-based diet and herbal-based preparations have been used centuries products are safe. In parallel with revival interest traditional foods medicinal plants, there also an intensive research activity dealing their safety efficacy prevention treatment wide range illnesses as well action mechanisms at cell biological, biochemical molecular biological levels. modern clinical medicine now beginning to accept botanical-based once scientifically investigated validated. As a result, increasing trend many countries incorporate herbal-derived obligatory course medical curriculum. This introductory chapter will provide brief introduction including therapeutic aspects safety. addition, various major types active compounds be discussed.