LOPES, J. C. F.; LOPES, Joana de Carvalho Fernandes.
Resumo:
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.