2013, Pages 29–61
Chapter 2 – Herbal Supplements or Herbs in Heart Disease: History, Herbal Foods, Coronary Heart Disease
- Available online 22 October 2012
Summary
Herbs
are natural form of dry whole plants or their parts such as dry flower,
root, oil, and stem. The number of cardioprotective herbal remedies and
herbal science is at rise. Adverse effects of cardiovascular treatment
are unavoidable serious statin side effects and need attention of
federal and regulatory bodies to search alternate methods of
cardiovascular prevention or herbal treatment. Herbal formula serves the
purpose of alternative or combinatorial treatment as safe, cheap, and
effective complementary and alternative medicine with no side effect.
Coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease are major disorders of
dyslipidemia or elevated lipids in blood to result with atherosclerosis
and cardiac arrest. Biochemical mechanistic basis of changes in
cardiovascular metabolites is described. New noninvasive herbal testing
method is described based on in vivo magnetic resonance imaging and ex
vivo magnetic resonance microscopy – histology correlation.
Keywords: Cardiac arrest; Coronary; Heart disease; Herbal, Herbs, Lipid
