Dinesh Kumar Chauhan*, Neeraj Sharma
Department of Pharmacology, Bhagwant University, Sikar Road, Ajmer (Rajasthan) India
*Address for correspondence
Dinesh Kumar Chauhan
Department of Pharmacology, Bhagwant University, Sikar Road, Ajmer (Rajasthan) India
Abstract
In India maximum people belong to poor or middle class families and they are unable to get modern drugs for treatment of diseases like AIDS, Cancer, several acute diseases etc. because modern treatment require huge cost. In ancient times diseases were treated by the use of herbal drugs. These drugs are cheap and easily available to all classes of people. In India many types of medicinal plants are grown which contain several medicinal properties, this is used by the pharmaceutical industry for preparation of various products. Rice is the most common crop specially used in Asia and all worlds. Rice bran and rice hull are produce by rice plant, which are useful for both man and animal. Rice bran is produced by milling of rice in the milling Industry. Several studies show that rice bran is rich source of nutrient like protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin, dietary fiber and minerals, gama-oryzanols, tocopherols, tocotrienols, phytosterols. Rice brain oil provides health benefit and antioxidant property due to presence of tocopherol, tocotrinol and gama-oryzanols. Rice Bran Contain antioxidant property, hence it is for treating various life threatening disorders like hypertension, cancer, lowering serum cholesterol, improving insulin sensitivity, skin related problems etc. Various Studies show that gamma-oryzanol has four times more antioxidant properties than tocopherols and 2-5 times more oxidative stability than groundnut oil.wax and rice bran oil are by product of rice bran .different food product are prepaid by adding rice bran to improve nutritional concentration and increasing shelf life of product.
Keyword: Rice bran, carbohydrates, Rice Bran, Gama-Oryzanol, tocopherols, self life , antioxidant