Background: Passion flower (Passiflora incarnata) is used in traditional medicine of Europe and South America to treat anxiety, insomnia and seizure. Recently, it has shown antianxiety and sedative effects in human.
The results indicate that Pasipay has anticonvulsant effects in the brain, possibly through positive allosteric modulation of the GABAA receptor complex via interaction at the benzodiazepine site.
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