Prescrição farmacêutica de fitoterápicos para o tratamento da ansiedade: uma revisão de literatura.

Abstract

Phytotherapy uses plants for the treatment or prevention of diseases based on popular knowledge and which has intensified from Public Policies encouraging the use, offer of phytotherapy in the SUS, as well as investigations of efficacy and safety of medicinal plants and training of professionals of health. With emphasis on the pharmacist, also qualified to prescribe herbal medicines, with various therapeutic indications, including anxiety disorder. Therefore, this study aimed to carry out a literature review on the pharmaceutical prescription of herbal medicines for the treatment of anxiety. The search was conducted in the following databases: Capes Journals, Scientific Electronic Libary Online (SciELO), Science Direct, PubMed and LILACS, using the descriptors: medicinal plants, herbal medicine, prescription of herbal medicines, anxiety, anxiety treatment, pharmaceutical prescription; 50 articles were used for the construction of this work. Adverse effects associated with conventional treatments for anxiety make it difficult to adhere to the treatment, and herbal medicine becomes a therapeutic alternative, since some medicinal plants have proven efficacy for this indication, and are regulated by ANVISA, with the possibility of pharmaceutical prescription, for the plants Melissa officinalis L., Erythrina verna, Passiflora edulis Sims, Lippia alba, Citrus aurantium, Matricaria recutita, Cymbopogon citratus, Passiflora incarnata e Passiflora alata, without the obligation of medical prescription. Therefore, medicinal plants represent a good alternative treatment for anxiety and the pharmacist is a very important professional in the field of herbal medicine because, in addition to knowledge in the area, he prescribes and provides all patient care.