HYPERLIPIDEMIA AND HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS, VARIOUS INDUCTION METHODS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT BY ETHNOMEDICINES

Abstract

Fundamental to cardiovascular diseases are two peril factors, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. These are leading cause of deaths in both developing as well urbanized countries and treated with many synthetic medicines that may attain their platue in effectiveness and having many side effects. So, therefore utmost need to seek out safe and well tolerated medicinal plants for management with scientific appraisal by using various animal models. Hence there is an agreement from many scientific facts that medicinal plants have less side effects and proven beneficial in lowering hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Hyperlipidemia causes atherosclerosis, which ultimately leads to cardiovascular diseases while in case of hypertension many factors contribute towards development of cardiovascular diseases, most importantly renin angiotensin system and sympathetic system activation. Many synthetic medicines available for treatment of these factors but allied with side effects that overcome by use of medicinal plants that are made available for human use by conducting first experiments in animal models by inducing hypertension and hyperlipidemia by various techniques and after that treating with medicinal plants. Hence review elaborated some methods of induction and various plants having hypolipidemic and hypotensive effects.