Dietary supplements are defined by law as “products taken by mouth that contain a dietary ingredient”. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs or botanicals and other substances that can be used to supplement the diet are the ingredients of dietary supplements.
According to the World Health Organization an estimate of 80% of the world’s population uses herbal medicine and approximately 25% of modern drugs or at least 7000 medical compounds are derived from plants. At least 35000 or more than two thirds of the plants around the world have medicinal value. 80% of the active plant compounds that is used in the traditional way of treating have been proven effective in the modern therapeutic treatment.
