Ethnopharmacological Applications Targeting Alcohol Abuse: Overview and Outlook

• Main Authors: Laxman Singh (Author), Tanuj Joshi (Author), Devesh Tewari (Author), Javier Echeverría (Author), Andrei Mocan (Author), Archana N. Sah (Author), Emil Parvanov (Author), Nikolay T. Tzvetkov (Author), Zheng Feei Ma (Author), Yeong Yeh Lee (Author), Piotr Poznański (Author), Lukasz Huminiecki (Author), Mariusz Sacharczuk (Author), Artur Jóźwik (Author), Jarosław O. Horbańczuk (Author), Joanna Feder-Kubis (Author), Atanas G. Atanasov (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Excessive alcohol consumption is the cause of several diseases and thus is of a major concern for society. Worldwide alcohol consumption has increased by many folds over the past decades. This urgently calls for intervention and relapse counteract measures. Modern pharmacological solutions induce complete alcohol self-restraint and prevent relapse, but they have many side effects. Natural products are most promising as they cause fewer adverse effects. Here we discuss in detail the medicinal plants used in various traditional/folklore medicine systems for targeting alcohol abuse. We also comprehensively describe preclinical and clinical studies done on some of these plants along with the possible mechanisms of action.

Item Description

1663-9812
10.3389/fphar.2019.01593