Popularmente conhecida pela sua flor como “flor da paixão”, e pelo seu fruto “maracujá”, a Passiflora incarnata L, pertencente à família Passifloraceae, é uma espécie nativa América do Sul, Austrália Sudeste Asiático. Segundo evidências científicas, tem sido utilizada na fitoterapia desde meados século XIX Europa Ocidental, estudos atuais reafirmam os efeitos terapêuticos sob inquietação nervos...

herbal medicines include a range of pharmacologically active compounds: in some cases it is not well understood which ingredients are important for a therapeutic effect. the supporters of herbal medicine believe that isolated ingredients in the majority of cases have weaker clinical effects than whole plant extract, a claim that would obviously require proof in each case. generalizations about ...

Brazil has a diversity of plant species and many them are medicinal plants used in the production herbal medicines. Passiflora incarnata is popularly known as passion fruit, its fruits aerial parts have anxiolytic sedative properties. Recent studies shown that P. several bioactive compounds such indole alkaloids, cyanogenic glycosides, maltol flavonoids. Among substances identified species, vit...

Research in the area of herbal psychopharmacology has revealed a variety of promising medicines that may provide benefit in the treatment of general anxiety and specific anxiety disorders. However, a comprehensive review of plant-based anxiolytics has been absent to date. Thus, our aim was to provide a comprehensive narrative review of plant-based medicines that have clinical and/or preclinical...

In Present work, the main objective is to develop less time consuming protocol for genomic DNA isolation from leaves of Passiflora foetida. Optimized protocol is cost effective, as it avoided use of expensive liquid nitrogen. The important parameters of CTAB buffer composition such as Polyvinylpyrrolidone PVP40000 (without PVP, 1%, 2%, 3.5%, 4.0%, 4.5%, 5.0%), CTAB (w, 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%), wate...