ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ayurveda, Nutraceutical, Caffeine
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It can prevent or treat of disease - food substance toxicology and drug reactions - all makeup pharmacology. Pharmacology: study of drug origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, Drug: medicine or any other substance having physiological effect when ingested. Ethnopharmacology: scientific study of substance used medicinally by different ethnic. Nutraceutical: any substance that can provide medical and health benefits. Organoleptic properties: aspects of food that one experiences via the senses. Spice : dry parts (roots, leaves, seeds) that impart a certain flavor mand pungent stimuli. Culinary herb: aromatic leaves or seeds of non-woody temperate plants. Variation in flavor characteristics of individual plants of same species. Collection - time of harvest and duration of drying. Hot is non-volatile = diffuse through mouth. Sharp is volatile = oral and nasal mucous membranes. Action of a drug when given to a healthy person. Not therapeutic = consequences of treatment which are desirable and harmful. Natural products reduces to constituents and/or extracts.
