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Traditional Medicines for Mental Health
Published in Abhai Kumar, Debasis Bagchi, Antioxidants and Functional Foods for Neurodegenerative Disorders, 2021
Smita Singh, Anup Singh, Abhai Kumar, Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia
Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral factors. These factors combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with fear, worry, or uneasiness. Without an identifiable triggering stimulus, anxiety is a generalized mood state. In fact, it is distinguished from fear, which occurs in the presence of an external threat. As such, anxiety is the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable, whereas fear is related to the specific behaviors of avoidance and escape (Martin et al., 2009). The treatment includes an extract of Albizia lebbeck, which belongs to Mimosaceae family, containing budmunchiamine alkaloids saponins; the seed powder is used for treating anxiety. No evidence was published of clinical trials or randomized controlled study. Other plants used for sleeplessness are Withania somnifera (roots), Centella asiatica (leaves), Piper longum (roots), Glycyrrhiza glabra (roots), and Terminalia bellirica (fruits). The traditional medicine kava (Piper methysticum) reduces symptoms while conducting randomized control trials (Sarris et al., 2013). Traditional medicines such as valerian root extract (Valeriana officinalis) and lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) extract combined in low doses reduced the state of anxiety in healthy young adults, in a crossover study. Open-label study in children with restlessness and dyssomnia showed an improvement in symptoms (Müller et al., 2006).
Lessons to Be Learnt from Ayurveda
Published in D. Suresh Kumar, Ayurveda in the New Millennium, 2020
Prachi Garodia, Sosmitha Girisa, Varsha Rana, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara, Bharat B. Aggarwal
The leaves, bark, flowers, and roots of Albizia lebbeck are used in the treatment of cough, cold, asthma, bronchitis, bronchial catarrh and tuberculosis. The plant parts are mostly used in the forms of extract or powder (Gulati et al. 2016). The aqueous extract from the bark of Albizia lebbeck showed anti-asthmatic, anti-allergic and anti-anaphylactic properties in experimental studies. β-boswellic acid was also shown to inhibit the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as T.N.F.-α, I.L.-1, I.L.-2, I.L.-6, I.L.-12; and I.F.N.-γ through the suppression of N.F.-κB activation suggesting the effect of Boswellia serrata to control the inflammation and contraction of airway smooth muscle in asthmatic disease by inhibiting the enzymes for generation of pro-inflammatory mediators and bronchoconstrictors (Gulati et al. 2016).
Anticarcinogenic effect of gold nanoparticles synthesized from Albizia lebbeck on HCT-116 colon cancer cell lines
Published in Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2020
Harikrishna Malaikolundhan, Gowsik Mookkan, Gunasekaran Krishnamoorthi, Nirosha Matheswaran, Murad Alsawalha, Vishnu Priya Veeraraghavan, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Aiting Di
Albizia lebbeck (AL) is a deciduous tree with composite leaves, round cream-coloured seeds, flat an oblong fruit and grows up wild. The plant is identifying all over India, Bangladesh, Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia [11]. Beneficially bark is used in bronchitis; root in hemicranias; seeds and bark in piles; flowers in bronchitis, asthma and tropical pulmonary eosinophilia [12]. It has been informed that the AL has analgesic, anti-asthmatic and anti-anaphylactic, nootropic, anti-inflammatory, anxiolytic, antibacterial, antioxidant and anticonvulsant properties [13]. There are numerous researches that emphasize the uses of herbal agents using the plant extracts of Albizia in hepatoprotection [14]. These explanations have drawn interest in the current study, which is a challenge to investigate the anticarcinogenic effect of A. lebbeck gold nanoparticles (AL-AuNPs) on HCT-116 colon carcinoma cells.
Chemical Utilization of Albizia lebbeck Leaves for Developing Protein Concentrates as a Dietary Supplement
Published in Journal of Dietary Supplements, 2018
Lutful Haque Khan, V. K. Varshney
Fresh leaves of Albizia lebbeck were collected in the early morning from the trees grown on the campus of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India, which lies between latitudes 29°58′N and 31°2′N and longitudes 77°34′E and 78°18′E. The plant material was authenticated at Systematic Botany Discipline, Botany Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India. The leaves were analyzed for moisture content using an oven drying procedure. Judging from the moisture content (57.89%), the average dry matter content of the leaves was 42.11%.