Plants and mental disorders: the case of Catalan linguistic area.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Mental disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Despite the disease burden they cause, including significant direct and indirect impacts on individual's health and major social and economic consequences in all countries of the world, it is still one of the most neglected areas of public health. In such a context, the medicinal plants traditionally used to pale these pathologies are presented as a promising tool for future drug development for the management of mental health disorders. The aim of the present study is to analyze the information about plant species used to treat mental disorders in the Catalan linguistic area (CLA) and compare these traditional uses with pharmacological literature in order to evaluate the most quoted

SUBMITTER: Irun LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10680987 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature