Nutraceutical implies that the extract or food is demonstrated to have a physiological                benefit or provide protection against a chronic disease.                                         Dr. Stephen De Felice first coined the term nutraceutics in 1989                                                          and he defined nutraceuticals as “food or parts of                                                        food that provide medical or health benefits                                                            including the prevention and treatment of                                                             diseases”. The term functional food is also used                                        to refer nutraceuticals. In  Canada and Great Britain, a                               functional food is essentially a food, but a nutraceutic is an isolated                         form or concentrated form.

Many of the new products that are being promoted to treat various diseases find their origin in the plant kingdom. This is an obvious choice as many plants produce secondary compounds as alkaloids to protect themselves from infections and these constituents may be useful in the management of human infection. Many of the phytomedicines are the typical examples.

The old proverb “an apple a day will keep the doctor away” is now replaced by “a nutraceutical a day may keep the doctor away”.  Consumers are turning
massively to food supplements to improve well being where
pharmaceuticals fail.

Nutraceuticals have been proven to be effective over
many years of use. Encouraged by their obvious
benefits, scientific randomized controlled trial have
been carried out which have proven conclusively that
nutraceuticals are effective and safe.

Tictino is a Probiotic + Prebiotic combination. It has a total of 2.5 billion spores of Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillus sporogenes, Bifidobacterium  longum, Saccharomyces boulardii. It also has the Prebiotics Inulin and Fructo-oligosacharide  (FOS). Its indications are –

• Antibiotic associated diarrhea
• Rota viral and other viral diarrhea
• Bacterial and parasitic diarrhea