Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics
Open Access

Abstract

The term �nutraceuticals� is applied to the products ranging from isolated nutrients, dietary supplements and herbal products to specific diets and processed foods. Nutraceuticals are products derived from food sources that are supposed to provide extra health benefits, in addition to the basic nutritional value found in foods. Depending on the influence, products may claim to prevent chronic diseases, improve health, delay the aging process, increase life expectancy, or support the structure or function of a particular organ or body. Nutraceuticals can broadly be classified into two (2) i.e. Dietary supplements which contain nutrients derived from food products that are concentrated in liquid or capsule form and functional foods which are designed to allow consumers to eat enriched foods close to their natural state, rather than dietary supplements manufactured in liquid or capsule form. Greek scholars rightly classified the things ingested inside the body into six and two of them are �absolute food� and �nutritious/ nourishing drugs�. �Nutritious drugs� are those substances when ingested becomes the component of the body. These �nutritious drugs� sometimes also called �medical/therapeutic nutrition� because of the dominance of nutritional value/functions of the substance. Various products and formulae manufactured with herbal base (specifically from Greek system of cure) are being widely used by all practitioners of other system of medicine also. The detail will be discussed in full text (I.A.)

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