Citation

Dey A, Das S, Mukherjee A. J. Biol. Active Prod. Nature 2016; 6(1): 1-24.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/22311866.2016.1175318

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Herbal therapeutics was in vogue since time immemorial and has become trendy again in the recent era due to its proven efficacy in disease management with lesser side effects and low price tag. In the treatment of various psychological disorders, phytotherapy is a common therapeutic considered all over the world. Schizophrenia is a serious mental and behavioural medical condition, affected by which the patients exhibit various symptoms like hallucination, delusion, thought disorder, apathy, social withdrawal etc. This psychiatric disorder can be caused by different genetic, environmental and developmental factors. The systematic review is summarized from some popular scientific search engines like Pubmed, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Elsevier, Jstor, Scopus etc. with different combination of the key-words such as schizophrenia, mental and behavioural disorder, violence, hallucination, herbal treatment, antipsychotic, anxiolytic. Presently, 22 plant extracts, 10 phytochemicals and four phytochemicals are being reported with their source, composition, mode of action etc. in the treatment of schizophrenia. Because of many serious side-effects caused by conventional antipsychotics, herbal remedy has become popular. Widespread uses have been provided on schizophrenia and possible anti-schizophrenic therapeutics obtained from botanicals and phytochemicals.

Language: en

Keywords

pharmacology; antipsychotic; herbal treatment; phytochemicals; schizophrenia