Kajian Tanaman Obat Indonesia yang Berpotensi sebagai Antidepresan
Abstract: Depression as a
mental illness has many negative effects to people’s quality of life. The
synthetic drugs has been developed to cure this illness but the side effect has
compromized the therapy. Other side, the use of herbal medicine has been
accepted in almost country in the world.The objective of this study is to find
antidepressant drug from Indonesian herbal medicine. The study is an assessment
derived from 53 publications of antidepressant effect of Indonesian herbal from
national and international papers.The assessment include the active compounds,
mechanism, and used part of plant. The result of this study is there are nine
potential Indonesian plants to be a co-therapy or alternative drug as
antidepressant. They are Valeriana javanica, Areca catechu Linn, Piper
longumBl., Curcuma longaLinn, Momordica charantia Linn, Clitoria ternatea,
Morinda citrifolia, Myristica fragrans, and Ocimum basilicum.
Keywords: Depression;
Antidepressant; Medicinal plant
Penulis: Rosa Adelina
Kode Jurnal: jpfarmasidd130415
