CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 WHAT ARE HERBS?

In the culinary arts, the word herb refers to any green or being part of a plant used for seasoning and flavoring a recipe but not used as the main ingredient. Herbs are a natural form of wide plants or their parts such as plower, ol, stem rich in bioactive chemical compounds so-called herbiceuticals”. The main difference between pharmaceutical drug and herbal principles is their isolation method and purification level. Herbs are ric in natural complex chemicals, bioactive herbal principles (whole herbs, extracts or concentrates) may be used as “bioactive herbal formulations” as combinations of different active chemicals of plants or their parts combined with know enzyme inhibitoes, vitamins and alkalizing minerals that have in healt promoting, disease preventing or semi medional properties.

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