Abstract

PHYTOFLAVONOIDS: CONTRIBUTION IN ANXIETY MANAGEMENT

Tamanna, Megha Rana, Rajwinder Kaur, Amanpreet Kaur*, Naresh Singh Gill, Navdeep Kaur 

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Abstract

Anxiety disorders are a major worldwide health problem with sizeable psychological, social, and economic costs. It stimulates an anticipatory and adaptive response to challenging or stressful events. In excess, anxiety destabilizes the individual and dysfunctional state results. It is considered to be pathological state when it occurs in the absence of stressful events. It includes general anxiety disorder, social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Distinct symptoms are displayed for those suffering from anxiety, including shortness of breath, dizziness, heart palpitations, gastrointestinal issues, and an abnormally high body temperature. It typically follow a chronic or recurring course in which full symptomatic remission is uncommon, they are associated with the temporal accumulation of co-morbid disorders and with an increased suicide risk. Anxiety medications can cause unwanted side effects, so some people consider herbal remedies as alternative. Herbal medicine and these drugs are gaining popularity both in developing and developed countries because of their natural origin and less side effects. Many traditional medicines are derived from medicinal plants, minerals and organic matter. It contains alkaloids, saponins, glycosides and flavonoids etc. The purpose of this review is to provide extensive knowledge about the various phytoconstituents which plays vital role in CNS activity, and possess the anti anxiety potential.

Keywords: Anxiety, herbal medicine, quercetin, rutin, kempferol, alpha pinene, phytoconstituents, phytoflavonoids.