International Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation, 2012, 2, 2, 53.
DOI: 10.4103/2230-973X.100033
Published: August 2012
Type: Editorial
Authors:
Jasjeet Kaur Sahni
Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi-110062, India.
ABSTRACT
The term “nutraceuticals” given by founder and chairman of the foundation for innovative medicine, Stephen DeFelice in the early 1980s, is made up of two terms nutrition and Pharmaceuticals. [1,2] Nutraceuticals are defined as components/nutrients isolated or purified from foods which have health benefits besides their actual function of providing nutrition and are therefore used to prevent the occurrence of a disease or are used in its treatment. They are usually sold in medicinal forms not associated with the foods from which are derived/isolated. The success of nutraceuticals can be attributed to their trait of imparting the desirable therapeutic benefits with a reduction in the side effects, associated with the use of pharmaceutical substances used in the prevention and treatment of various ailments. Read More…
Keywords: Nil.