Dietary Supplements: The New Herbalism

Dietary supplements.

For the athlete training hard, nutritional supplements are often seen as promoting adaptations to training, allowing more consistent and intensive training by promoting recovery between training sessions, reducing interruptions to training because of illness or injury, and enhancing competitive performance. Surveys show that the prevalence of supplement use is widespread among sportsmen and wom...

The dangers of herbalism.

Case report A 30 year old man of Indian extraction presented at a dermatology clinic with a six month history of photosensitivity. After being exposed to summer sunshine in London in the middle of the day he would develop erythema and itching of the hands and ears the same evening and blistering the following day. He had had extensive vitiligo for 20 years, but the photosensitivity also affecte...

Dietary supplements for osteoarthritis.

A large number of dietary supplements are promoted to patients with osteoarthritis and as many as one third of those patients have used a supplement to treat their condition. Glucosamine-containing supplements are among the most commonly used products for osteoarthritis. Although the evidence is not entirely consistent, most research suggests that glucosamine sulfate can improve symptoms of pai...

Why dietary supplements?

Botanicals in Dietary Supplements

1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, 447 Sri Ayudhya Road, Rajathevi District, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2 Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 1, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany 3 Clinical Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmacy Practice, PAHO/WHOCollaborating Centre for TraditionalMedicine, College o...