Vol. 10, Issue 5 (2021)

Aim: The aim of this review is to summarize the current findings about the positive influence of herbal wine consumption on chronic diseases, and the reduction of damage to the cardiovascular system.

Objectives: Chronic diseases become a major health problem in the past decades and are now the second leading cause of death globally. This review aims to outline the benefits of medicinal plants used in herbal wine and plant-derived products and highlight why they should be used as novel anti- chronic diseases agents.

Material and Methods: PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Google Scholar are the search engines used for collecting the information for compiling this review paper.

Results: This study emphasizes the alteration of the balance mentioned of total polyphenols and antioxidants present in the herbs and herbal wines which prompts good health and prevention from chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis that may affect every human at some point of life. Many reports have been targeted in this review on the health protective properties of herbal wine.

Conclusion: Consumers who didn’t like wine were also considered to be uncultured in past, nowadays also get attracted towards herbal wine. It has been concluded that herbal wine is an essential drink which has various polyphenols and antioxidants present in it, which exerts positive impact towards cardiovascular and other chronic diseases and thereby help to prevent them.