Avaliação do consumo de Valeriana e Passiflora durante pandemia COVID-19/ Assessment of Valerian and Passiflora consumption during a pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

RESUMOO uso de plantas medicinais ou fitoterapia, fazem parte da prática da medicina popular, podendo complementar um tratamento alopático ou ser usada de forma independente a tratar por completo algumas patologias. Devido ao grande avanço dos estudos para tratamentos utilizando as plantas, é possível utilizar com segurança e efetividade a fitoterapia. O crescimento da utilização por fitoterápicos no Brasil se dá por alguns

Association Between Frequent Use of Makeup and Presence of Depressive Symptoms—Population-Based Observational Study, Including 2400 Participants

“…The authors did not include herbal medicines and a comparable sample of participants, so it is not possible to say that their results were in line with ours, although they are comparable when antidepressants and benzodiazepines are considered. Research on the consumption of passionflower and valerian [22] reported growth in their consumption in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, which may contribute to explain the prominence of passionflower in the list of active ingredients we have identified.…”

“…Data were collected through an online questionnaire containing the following questions: (1) frequency of makeup use (any kind) with options for a single answer presented in Table 2, where codes 4 or 5 were considered ''frequent users of makeup;'' (2) self-reported diagnosis of depression and others, with dichotomous answer, yes or no, considering the following diagnoses from a physician: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, mood disorder and social phobia; (3) use of drugs that act on the central nervous system, prescribed or not by a doctor, considered by the volunteers as ''soothing,'' to ''facilitate sleep'' or any other for ''some emotional problem, with dichotomous answer, yes or no, and the name of the medicines in positive cases, which were coded and grouped according to the active ingredient; (4) inventory of depressive symptoms using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSDS) 1 [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], translated and validated for Brazilian Portuguese in 2010 [23], providing an index that suggests the absence or existence of mild, moderate or severe depression. It is a public domain instrument for screening for depression in adults [16]; it was more sensitive than theDepression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) [25].…”

The first epiphytic species of Valeriana in the world: Valeriana rudychazaroi (Caprifoliaceae)

“…( Penneckamp 2020 ), V. sobraliana Rabuske & Iganci ( Rabuske-Silva and Vieira-Iganci 2019 ), V. iganciana Rabuske & J.Külkamp ( Rabuske-Silva and Külkamp 2018 ) and V. vilcabambensis Sylvester & Barrie ( Sylvester et al 2018 ). Recently, the medicinal species V. officinalis gained great importance for being an important alternative in the treatment of anxiety disorders, insomnia and stress caused during the Covid-19 pandemic around the world ( Frost et al 2021 ; Pessolato et al 2021 ; Bertuccioli et al 2022 ).…”