Handbook of Herbs and Spices - Volume 3

132 Handbook of herbs and spices to a reactive oxygen or reactive nitrogen species then the oxidant radical which is formed in t ...

Herbs, spices and cardiovascular disease 133 anions as measured by nitro blue tetrazolium reduction in a xanthine-xanthine oxida ...

134 Handbook of herbs and spices in delaying lipid oxidation compared with the level of 100 mg/kg but inferior to dietary supple ...

Herbs, spices and cardiovascular disease 135 in their food to achieve the same objective. Consumption of the complex composition ...

136 Handbook of herbs and spices BROWN L, ROSTER B, WILLETT WW and SACHS FM (1999) Cholesterol-lowering effects of dietary fibre ...

Herbs, spices and cardiovascular disease 137 RICE-EVANS CA (2001) Flavonoid antioxidants. Current Medical Chemistry 8, 797–807. ...

138 Handbook of herbs and spices 9.1 Introduction Cancer is a complex set of diseases and is one of the most devastating disease ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 139 world’s plant population has been used for medicinal purposes at one time or another. Most of the t ...

140 Handbook of herbs and spices The general concept of biological therapy or gene therapy is defined as the transfer of genetic ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 141 They work well on Va t a and Kapha cancers. Besides these categories, there are herbs that are pung ...

142 Handbook of herbs and spices that Withania somnifera root has chemopreventive efficacy against forestomach and skin carcinog ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 143 medicinal properties that alleviate symptoms or prevent disease. Saffron, a food colorant; turmeric ...

144 Handbook of herbs and spices Semecarpus ‘Lehyam’ (SL) – a Siddha medicine – with respect to breast cancer and found SL to be ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 145 enzymes in the liver (Padmavathi, et al., 2005). Further, in a long-term tumorigenesis study, Witha ...

146 Handbook of herbs and spices Ta ble 9.1 Other plant species having anticancer property Plant name Parts used Abelmoschus esc ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 147 Gardenia turgida Roxb. Root – anticancerous Gaultheria fragratissima Wall. Essential oil is antican ...

148 Handbook of herbs and spices climber with simple, alternate leaves and a jointed stem. The leaves are aromatic and are medic ...

Herbs, spices and cancer 149 9.8 References..................................................................................... ...

150 Handbook of herbs and spices PUD D, KANER E, MORAG A, BEN-AMI S and YAFFE A (2005), ‘Use of complementary and alternative me ...

Herbs, spices and gut health 151 10.1 Introduction Gut health is the most important factor for a healthy life. A large number of ...