A review on antihyperlipidemic activity of various herbal plants and various experimental animal models
Journal Title: Journal of Drug Discovery and Therapeutics - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 8
Abstract
Hyperlipidemia is a disorder of lipid metabolism which is major risk of coronary heart disease. Now day’s synthetic drugs have been associated with number of side effects but herbal medicines have lipid lowering and antioxidant activities without any side effects. Some traditionally herbs like: - Terminalia Arjuna (Arjun), Commiphora mukul (Gugglul), Picrorrhiza Kurroa(Kutki), Allium Sativum (Lasuna), etc. are used as Antihyperlipidemic drug as per ayurvedic literature. The review article is undertaken to investigate the herbal Plants for Antihyperlipidemic activity and models use in this investigation. This review is given on the anti- hyperlipidemic activity of the most familiar medicinal plants of medicine.This matter may be helpful for the researchers, academician and preclinician about the potential herbs having anti-hyperlipidemic activity.
Authors and Affiliations
Rajesh Asija| Maharishi Arvind Institute of pharmacy, mansarovar, jaipur, Rajasthan, India- 302020, Sourabh Sharma| Maharishi Arvind Institute of pharmacy, mansarovar, jaipur, Rajasthan, India- 302020, Parvesh Kumar Sharma| Maharishi Arvind Institute of pharmacy, mansarovar, jaipur, Rajasthan, India- 302020, Prateek Choudhary| Maharishi Arvind Institute of pharmacy, mansarovar, jaipur, Rajasthan, India- 302020, Vijay Kumar| Maharishi Arvind Institute of pharmacy, mansarovar, jaipur, Rajasthan, India- 302020
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