Medicinal plants possess sedative and anxiolytic effect with emphasis on their mechanisms of action

Ali Esmail  Al-Snafi

doi:10.30574/gscbps.2021.17.3.0351

Authors

Ali Esmail Al-Snafi Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Thi-Qar, Iraq.

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https://doi.org/10.30574/gscbps.2021.17.3.0351

Keywords:

Insomnia, Anxiety, Sedative, Anxiolytic, Medicinal Plants

Abstract

Insomnia and anxiety are worldwide medical problems. Plant extracts possessed sedative and anxiolytic effect via different mechanisms included interactions with Na+ channels, γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and chatecholamines. In the current review, Web Science, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct, were searched to investigate the plants with sedative and anxiolytic effects

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