A review of the health benefit potentials of herbal plant infusions and their mechanism of actions

Farzaneh, Vahid; Saraiva De Carvalho, Isabel

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Farzaneh, Vahid

Saraiva De Carvalho, Isabel

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Nowadays, there has been a universal propensity to application of natural phytochemicals accessible in diverse intrinsic rich sources such as fruits, leaves, branches as well as roots of different plants because of existence of substituents with bioactive potentials, well-being advantages and functional ingredients. The preservative consequence of many herbs and spices are proposing the existence of compositions with varied remedial specifications in their structures. Plants are classified by geographical status and inharmonious territory that created further than several thousands herbages with various advantages. The various superiority of herbaceous infusions, such as antidiabetic, anti-carcinogenic, antimicrobial and antioxidant are appeared in diverse functions. Phenolic as well as secondary metabolite components have been reported as the major components having health superiority, and follow this, superb relationship between those advantages and various measured antioxidant values, such as reducing power, scavenging and inhibition capability of free radicals, and metal gelation activity are observed. Hence, the current review intends to debate the effectual fragments of medicinal plants with vulnerary potentials and explains their mechanism of functions. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.