Phytotherapy of Obesity: A Review of Approaches Related to the use of Traditional Medicine for Obesity

Authors: Anjali Saxena, Monika Singh, Sagarika Majhi, Moumita Barman Shalini Kapoor Sawhney, Dinesh Puri and Nitin Kumar*

DOI: 10.23880/doij-16000206

Volume 4, Issue 3

Abstract

Now, a day’s obesity is a common health issue; it is a grave and persistent disease that can have a depressing effect on our body. Flabby and fatness might be raising the danger of many physical conditions, like heart disease, diabetes osteoarthritis and cancers. In the present days it is approximate more than 300 million overweight people international. Obesity is related to the disorder of lipid metabolism and the enzymes involved in the process of lipid metabolism. So, the lipid metabolism is the main target for the development of anti-obesity drugs. On the other hand, most of the anti-obesity drugs now introvert due to severe adverse effects. That’s why; the naturopathic management for obesity has been extensively recommended from primordial times and attains impact in the current circumstances also. Conventional therapeutic foliage and their dynamicphyto constituents have been used for the handling of fatness and problems derived from obesity. This review mainly emphasis on natural phytoextracts with their mechanism of action and their preclinical investigational replica for advance scientific investigate.

Keywords: Obesity; Anti-Obesity; Drugs; Herbal Drugs

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