An Overview on Medicinal Plant posses Anti-anxiety Activity

Abstract

Anxiety is type of psychiatric illness. Anxiety refers to the experience of
fear, restlessness, nervousness, tension, apprehensiveness, panic, and
agitation. Nowadays modern life style leads to various degree of anxiety
and depression.
.There are quantity of medicinal plants having significant
anxiolytic activity i.e. Abies pindrow Royle., Apocynum venetum. L,
Casimiroa edulis Llave, Mangifera indica, Momordica charantia Linn.,
Turnera aphrodisiaca Ward., Paullina pinnata, Withania somnifera (L.)
Dunal, Zingiber officinale. etc. There is large number of man-made
drugs used for treatment of anxiety but these drugs have many side
effects. To avoid this side effect herbal therapies are considered as
alternative or complementary medicines for the treatment of neurological
disorder