2015, Pages 795–804
Chapter 73 – Herbs and Dementia: A Focus on Chinese and Other Traditional Herbs
Eating
is a lifelong necessity and, as many people experience, eating
behaviors can also lead to health problems. Attention to diet and
nutrition should enable development of dietary and therapeutic measures
that can arrest, resist, delay, or reverse disease risk factors,
including aging, by regenerating, rejuvenating, or revitalizing the
metabolic functional dynamics of the bodily organs. Within this context,
this review examines the appealing potential for chemoprevention and
the function and contribution of the most frequently used dietary herbs.
These herbs may serve as long-term dementia prevention treatments that
can complement the daily diet to improve quality of life. Expanded
coverage of the evidence for the antidementia effects and cognitive
improvement provided by huperzine A and Bacopa monnieri is also presented.
Keywords
- Alzheimer’s disease;
- cognition;
- acetylcholinesterase inhibitors;
- herbs;
- diet;
- nutrition;
- phytochemicals
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