Possibility of using Caucasian Rhododendron

Abstract

In today’s world, consumption of food and medicinal plants has been increasing steadily. Today, chemicals are no longer regarded as the sole agent for treating diseases and life extension. The public is now convinced that any chemical drug has usually certain counterindications. That is why today there is a search for possibilities for using different medicinal plants. Modern scolarly research had shown that there is a lot of plants on earth that can be used for both food and medicinal purposes. Pharmacologists, chemists, biochemists and botanists are working on a scientific research to discover new medicinal properties of plants, and to use them in production of environmentally friendly multicomponent therapeutic food products and medicinal agents that ensure timely and full removal of harmful substances and heavy metals deposits from the human body [1].

One of the serious diseases of modern times is obesity, which has been considered as the disease of the twenty-first century and the New World Syndrome, is a global public health problem [2, 3]. Overweight and obese people have abnormal or excessive fat accumulated. In addition to aesthetic problems, obesity also results in abnormal physiological metabolism, which leads to a series of physiological, psychological and social problems. It has been report by the World Health Organization (WHO) that every year at least 2.8 million people die because of being overweight or obese [4]. The link between obesity and the intake of a lipid-rich diet raised attention towards inhibition of pancreatic lipase, since this enzyme plays a central role in lipid digestion.