Depression is a common and serious psychological illness, affecting the physical and mental functions of patients, including the ways patients feel, think and act.
Some patients with depression may feel sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed.
There are many causes associated with the onset of depression, including genetics, changes in hormone levels, certain medical conditions, stress, grief or difficult life circumstances that initiate the change of brain chemistry in inducing depressive syndrome.
The most common symptoms of depression include sadness, hopelessness, guilt, change of mood, loss of interest in friends, family, favorite activities, and sex.
Some patients with depression also experience cognitive symptoms of trouble concentrating, making decisions, remembering and thoughts of harming themselves.
People who act out of the ordinary, consist of undesirable behavior result in impairment in the individual's functioning are considered to have abnormal behavior.
Undesirable behavior or abnormal behavior has been found in many patients with chronic depression.
According to the statistics, over 30 million Americans suffer from depression and the amount is increasing at an alarming rate. Depression may be a mental health disorder that can affect the way you eat, sleep, and the way you feel about yourself.
Antidepressant is a type of conventional medicine used as a first-line treatment of depression.
Angelica or Dang Qui is a herb of Genus Angelica from the family Apiaceae, indigenous to China.
The herb has been used as a Queen herb in traditional Chinese medicine antispasmodic and vasodilatory agent, and to balance the hormones in women for a normal menstrual cycle and menstruation and strengthen heart, spleen, kidneys, and liver for both men and women, etc. In other words, it is used to treat gynecological ailments, fatigue, mild anemia, and high blood pressure. It has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, etc.
On finding a herbal medicine for the treatment of depression and depressive symptoms, researchers examined the antidepressant effects of PAPZ (Panax ginseng, Angelica Sinensis, Polygala tenuifolia Willd, and Ziziphi spinose Semen) on corticosterone (CORT) model of depression in mice.
According to the experimental results, the administration of PAPZ ameliorated depression-like phenotypes in the CORT model.
Furthermore, chronic PAPZ administration exhibited the protein expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the hippocampal tissue of the depressive mice.
Moreover, levels of the antioxidant enzyme activity of superoxide dismutase were enhanced compared to the decrease of the levels of stress marker malondialdehyde levels in the hippocampal tissue.
Based on the evidence, researchers said, "PAPZ has therapeutic effects in a mice depression model through increasing protein expression of BDNF and improving the anti-oxidation ability of the brain".
Taken altogether, Herbal Angelica processes anti-depressant activity, pending to larger sample size and multicenter human study.
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Sources
(1) The Chinese Herbal Formula PAPZ Ameliorates Behavioral Abnormalities in Depressive Mice by Chen H1, Huang Q2,3, Zhang S4,5, Hu K6, Xiong W7, Xiao L8, Cong R9, Liu Q10, Wang Z. (PubMed)
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