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Fatigue
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Adaptogens are compounds that support the body’s ability to cope with stress. The roots and berries of the ashwagandha plant (Withania somnifera) have been used for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine. Through its antioxidant properties, ashwagandha is believed to have a wide range of health benefits from improving brain function, stress resilience, and disease resistance to protecting against cellular damage and promoting a healthy sexual and reproductive balance. It is especially rejuvenating for the endocrine and immune systems.
Fibromyalgia
Published in Sahar Swidan, Matthew Bennett, Advanced Therapeutics in Pain Medicine, 2020
Adaptogens are known for fighting fatigue and stress, which are common symptoms of fibromyalgia. This term “adaptogen” refers to products that help fight environmental stress by helping organisms “adapt” to severe conditions. Many of these herbals are used in traditional Chinese medicine to aid in fighting daily stress, fatigue, colds, infections, and, in general, to improve vitality.182Panax ginseng, American ginseng, astragalus, and ashwagandha are included among the adaptogens. These agents are commonly used, but there is currently no reliable evidence that they work for the use of symptom management in fibromyalgia patients.182
Herbs with Antidepressant Effects
Published in Scott Mendelson, Herbal Treatment of Major Depression, 2019
The name ginseng is used in reference to several plants of the genus Panax, i.e., Panax ginseng, or Korean ginseng; Panax notoginseng, or Chinese ginseng; and Panax quinquefolius, or American ginseng. The herb called Siberian ginseng is not in the Panax family, but is rather another plant entirely, Eleutherococcus senticosus. Ginseng has been used for several thousand years in Asia as a tonic and in TCM has been included as an ingredient in several classical herbal combinations for the treatment of MDD. It is currently classified by many as an adaptogen, with the alleged ability to enhance physical performance, promote vitality, increase resistance to stress and aging, and strengthen immune function.
Can the biological mechanisms of ageing be corrected by food supplementation. The concept of health care over sick care
Published in The Aging Male, 2020
Since even mild stress may lead to important neurological, endocrine and inflammatory alterations that can accelerate the biological process of ageing, it is recommended to use phyto-adaptogens, which are plant extracts interfering with the body reaction to stress and anxiety. Their mechanisms of action are complex [73,74] and involve several molecular chaperons, including the heat shock protein 72 (Hsp 72). The extract of Rosenroot (Rhodiola rosea) exerts important adaptogenic capacity and has been shown to display beneficial effects on anxiety, stress, cognition, and other mood symptoms in open [75,76] as well as in randomised double-blind trials [77,78]. This justifies the potential application of Rhodiola extract in the prevention of age-related, stress-dependent diseases [79].
Stress management and the role of Rhodiola rosea: a review
Published in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2018
Ion-George Anghelescu, David Edwards, Erich Seifritz, Siegfried Kasper
The term ‘adaptogen’ is used to describe medicinal plants that have the capacity to normalise body functions and strengthen systems compromised by stress and are able to enhance the ‘state of non-specific resistance’ of an organism to stress described above as allostasis. The Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) which is the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) committee responsible for compiling and assessing scientific data on herbal substances, preparations and combinations developed the reflection paper on the adaptogenic concept (EMA, 2008).
Herbal medicine for psychiatric disorders: Psychopharmacology and neuroscience-based nomenclature
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2019
Siu W. Tang, Wayne H. Tang, Brian E. Leonard
Recent research has shown that some of the ingredients in these ‘adaptogens’ in fact also possess some or most of the properties listed above and there is no myth to their mode of action. Thus, there are two important research issues pertaining to the psychopharmacology of these herbs used in traditional medicine for mental ailments: can the combined pharmacological properties of the various ingredients in these herbs explain their therapeutic properties, or is it because some of the active ingredients have a multi-target profile pharmacologically.