Herbal Supplements or Herbs in Heart Disease: Herbiceutical Formulation, Clinical Trials, Futuristic Developments

In present report, we introduce readers to the emerging knowledge on use of herbs in cardiac protection, mechanism of dyslipidemia in development of heart disease and our new technique of non-invasive micro imaging of heart disease. The scope of herbal treatment is wider initially to manage dyslipidemia by lipid lowering and enhancing ‘cardiac capacity’ in cardio protection and cardiac prevention. Prevention of disease includes hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, heart failure, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies. Chapter is divided into different sections on present state of art in herbal formula in cardio protection, introduction to herbs in heart disease, biomarkers and biochemistry of herbal cardio protective action, herbiceutical formula, and future prospective of herbiceuticals in cardio protection with a comment on government policy.