MULTICOMPONENT MEDICINAL SPECIES AS A SOURCE OF MACRONUTRIENTS

Abstract

Medicinal plant raw material contains not only biologically active substances but also mineral elements. Currently, medicinal herbal preparations as sources of macronutrients are practically not studied. The aim of the research is to study the amount of macronutrients that can promote to manifestation of therapeutic effects on the example of a pectoral species № 4. An analysis of macronutrients content (potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur and iron) and its components in a pectoral species №4 was carried out using the atomic emission spectrometry. It was found out that the content of macronutrients is in the range of 62,1-21705,63 mg/kg. Their average values decreased in the series: K> Ca > Mg > P > S > Na > Fe. Macronutrients appear in the amount of 10 to 80% in the infusion from the pectoral species № 4. The amount of potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur and iron in the pectoral species № 4 made 25-1100% of the daily requirement which allows to consider this species as an additional source of those macronutrients presence in the human body.