Does Melissa Officinalis Cause Withdrawal or Dependence?

INTRODUCTION: Melissa officinalis is a medical and aromatic plant that is used for its hypnotic, sedative, and spasmolytic effects. This report presents a case study of30-year-old patient who was admitted to an emergency department with restlessness, tremor, distractibility, and sweating following a...

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Autores principales: Demirci, Kadir, Akgönül, Mehmet, Demirdaş, Arif, Akpınar, Abdullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870482
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2015.69.60-61
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description INTRODUCTION: Melissa officinalis is a medical and aromatic plant that is used for its hypnotic, sedative, and spasmolytic effects. This report presents a case study of30-year-old patient who was admitted to an emergency department with restlessness, tremor, distractibility, and sweating following a discontinuation of Melissa officinalis consumption. CASE REPORT: In this case, withdrawal symptoms may be related to the dependence effect caused by long-term use of Melissa officinalis. Although Melissa officinalis, a plant, is preferred by many patients as an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs, patients should be made aware that it may have a risk of dependency and can lead to withdrawal symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-43848702015-04-13 Does Melissa Officinalis Cause Withdrawal or Dependence? Demirci, Kadir Akgönül, Mehmet Demirdaş, Arif Akpınar, Abdullah Med Arch Case Report INTRODUCTION: Melissa officinalis is a medical and aromatic plant that is used for its hypnotic, sedative, and spasmolytic effects. This report presents a case study of30-year-old patient who was admitted to an emergency department with restlessness, tremor, distractibility, and sweating following a discontinuation of Melissa officinalis consumption. CASE REPORT: In this case, withdrawal symptoms may be related to the dependence effect caused by long-term use of Melissa officinalis. Although Melissa officinalis, a plant, is preferred by many patients as an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs, patients should be made aware that it may have a risk of dependency and can lead to withdrawal symptoms. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2015-02 2015-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4384870/ /pubmed/25870482 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2015.69.60-61 Text en Copyright: © Kadir Demirci, Mehmet Akgönül, Arif Demirdaş, Abdullah Akpınar http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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