Abstrakt

Alternative Herbal Medicine for Hypertension and Anxiety: Passiflora sp.-A short review

Sabyasachi Chatterjee*, Kaniz Wahida Sultana, Anindita Roy, Indrani Chandra

Hypertension, a major public health issue is responsible for cardiovascular diseases worldwide. Increase of either cardiac output or peripheral resistance of an individual will results in increase of blood pressure, which is related to hypertension. Anxiety, another health problem related to most of the people in the World, is a psychological disorder characterized by a persistent and disproportionate fear unrelated to genuine risk.

Though, Several well-known drugs are available now a day in the market, but most of the drugs have reports of side effects on patients. So, finding of alternative herbal medicine for the treatment of both the health issues are the main objectives of research groups. Some species of Passiflora plants having antihypertensive and antianxiety properties may be considered as herbal drugs as there are few reports on the above said properties.