A narrative review on traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and bioactive components in epilepsy treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), natural drugs and their bioactive components have been widely used to treat epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic disease caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons that leads to brain dysfunction and cognitive impairment. Several factors are involved in the mechanisms of epilepsy, and the current treatments do not seem promising. The potential efficacy of natural drugs with lower toxicity and less side effects have attracted increasing attention.

Methods

We used the terms, "TCM", "traditional Chinese medicine", "herbal", "epilepsy", "seizure", and the name of each prescription and bioactive components in the review to collect papers about application of TCM in epilepsy treatment from PubMed online database and Chi

SUBMITTER: Tao F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9929833 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature