Some of Egyptian Medicinal Plants and Heart, Blood Disease

Many medicinal plants have significant effect upon the diseases, such as diabetes, skin, liver cancer, heart, respiratory, blood and nervous system. Medicinal plants in Egypt contain high concentration of secondary metabolites, according to the suitable environmental conditions. The ancient Egyptian had written a lot of information about medicinal plants and their uses and many drugs of these medicinal plants are still used in medicine. Many of medicinal plants were cleared on wall of temples and in the papyri, famous Ebers papyrus that written in 1550 B.C. cardiovascular diseases (CVD) can be defined according to the World Health Organization (WHO) as a defect of the circulatory system including heart and blood vessels. There are many types of CVD such as Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), cerebro vascular disease, heart attacks and strokes. Deposition of fatty substances, cellular waste, cholesterol and other substances on the inner walls of blood vessels is the major cause for CVD, World Health Organization (2014). Traditional medicinal plants definite a phyto- remedies, their use still burgeoning worldwide, the medicinal plants are used as a herbal for recovery to many disease, and of their constituents now used in very beigest scale to cure from many disease such as diabetes 2, skin, liver, cancer and heart disease too. Drugs of herbal or their derivatives considered natural products that mostly have not any side effects.

Author(s): Mohammed Sayed Aly Mohammed

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