Fitoterápicos e plantas medicinais utilizadas como inibidores e estimuladores do apetite

Abstract

Introduction: The attacks are open to clinical frames linked to modernity. They are characterized by the behavior of the personal, family and sociocultural characters language, characterized by care with weight, weight and body. Phytotherapics are used in treatment as an alternative, acting as appetite moderators and metabolism accelerators, promoting the reduction of food intake, lowering cholesterol levels, and antioxidant, diuretic and lipolytic action in weight loss or stimulating appetite for weight gain. Objective: To identify phytotherapics and medicinal plants that inhibit and stimulate appetite and that have scientific evaluation, are more important and used, their way of acting is not organic. Methodology: This is a bibliographical study of the last 10 years due to more recent studies, such as SCIELO, LILACS, MEDLINE and Google Scholar with predominance in glass, English and Spanish, "Herbal Medicine and Obesity", "Appetite stimulants and "Medicinal Plants" and "Phytotherapics for Obesity" after a series of articles that were more coherent with the theme of 29 articles. Results: Phytotherapics and medicinal plants and their properties as inhibitors and stimulants of the appetite were identified. : inhibitors of lipid absorption as the main herb mate, lipolytic as the main bitter orange, carbohydrate metabolism modifiers as the main phase of the bean extract, stimulant of the appetite jatobá. The medicinal plants most used for weight loss are Camellia sinensis, Garcinia cambogia, Carallums fimbriata and for appetite stimulation jatobá is used, but no scientific evidence is provided. Conclusion: Based on the available literature, most of the herbal and medicinal plants used for weight loss are in common use, whereas it has an appetite stimulating effect, only the jatobá has been found but there is no scientific proof. Further studies with medicinal plants are necessary to prove the safety and efficacy of several species that are in use in the country.