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The effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy

Traditional herbal medicine plays a significant role in the treatment of epilepsy. Though herbal medicine is widely used in antiepileptic treatment, there is a lack of robust evidence for efficacy and toxicity of most herbs. Besides, the herbal medicine should be subject to evidence-based scrutiny....

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Autores principales: Liu, Wei, Ge, Tongtong, Pan, Zhenxiang, Leng, Yashu, Lv, Jiayin, Li, Bingjin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals LLC 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5564656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28423368
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.16801
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author Liu, Wei
Ge, Tongtong
Pan, Zhenxiang
Leng, Yashu
Lv, Jiayin
Li, Bingjin
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description Traditional herbal medicine plays a significant role in the treatment of epilepsy. Though herbal medicine is widely used in antiepileptic treatment, there is a lack of robust evidence for efficacy and toxicity of most herbs. Besides, the herbal medicine should be subject to evidence-based scrutiny. In this context, we present a review to introduce the effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy. However, hundreds of herbal medicines have been investigated in the available studies. Some commonly used herbal medicines for epilepsy have been listed in our study. The overwhelming majority of these data are based on animal experiments. The lack of clinical data places constraints on the clinical recommendation of herbal medicine. Our study may conduct further studies and provide some insight on the development of anti-epileptic drugs.
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spelling pubmed-55646562017-08-23 The effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy Liu, Wei Ge, Tongtong Pan, Zhenxiang Leng, Yashu Lv, Jiayin Li, Bingjin Oncotarget Review Traditional herbal medicine plays a significant role in the treatment of epilepsy. Though herbal medicine is widely used in antiepileptic treatment, there is a lack of robust evidence for efficacy and toxicity of most herbs. Besides, the herbal medicine should be subject to evidence-based scrutiny. In this context, we present a review to introduce the effects of herbal medicine on epilepsy. However, hundreds of herbal medicines have been investigated in the available studies. Some commonly used herbal medicines for epilepsy have been listed in our study. The overwhelming majority of these data are based on animal experiments. The lack of clinical data places constraints on the clinical recommendation of herbal medicine. Our study may conduct further studies and provide some insight on the development of anti-epileptic drugs. Impact Journals LLC 2017-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5564656/ /pubmed/28423368 http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.16801 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Liu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5564656/
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