Attitudes Toward Psychological Disorders and Alternative Medicine in Saudi Participants

Background: This study was designed to investigate Saudis' attitudes toward mental distress and psychotropic medication, attribution of causes, expected side effects, and to analyze participants' expectations toward alternative or complementary medicine using aromatic and medicinal plants, through a survey.Method: The study included 674 participants (citizens and residents in Saudi Arabia) who were randomly contacted via email and social media and gave their consent to complete a questionnaire dealing with 39 items that can be clustered in six parts. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square for cross-tabulation were generated using SPSS.Results: Among the 664 participants, 73.4% believed that there are some positive and negative outcomes of psychotropic medication. Participants (72.0%) think that the most important reason leading to psychological disorders is mainly due to the loss of a relative or beloved person, and 73.9% considered psychic session as one of the possible treatments of psychological disorders. Surprisingly, only 18.8% of the participants agreed that medicinal and aromatic plants could be a possible treatment of the psychological disorder. Participants (82%) consider that physicians are the most trustful and preferred source of information about alternative and complementary medicine.

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Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological study of medicinal and aromatic plants used in the treatment of neurological disorders in the Moroccan Rif

Journal of Integrative Medicine ◽

10.30564/jim.v8i1.571 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Noureddine Chaachouay

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Neurological Disorders ◽

Neurological Diseases ◽

Native People ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽

Important Family ◽

Therapeutic Uses ◽

Medicinal Flora ◽

Source Of Information

Background: The present study aimed to analyse and evaluate the ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological information related to the use of plants for medicinal purposes by the native people of Moroccan Rif region.Material and Methods: An ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological study was conducted in the Rif region (northern Morocco) for two campaigns (2016 and 2017), using 625 questionnaires to identify the various information concerning the therapeutic uses practiced by the population of the study area.Results: The Rif’s population that uses medicinal and aromatic plants in the treatment of neurological diseases includes 321 women and 304 men. The survey identified 31 plant species and subspecies divided into 14 families, 09 of which were Dicotyledonous and 04 of Monocotyledonous. The most important family is that of the Asteraceae and the Lamiaceae represented by 05 species, the leaves are the most used part and the majority of the remedies are prepared in the form of infusion.Conclusion: This study highlights the medicinal and aromatic plants used in the treatment of neurological diseases by the Moroccan Rif population. The results obtained constitute a very valuable database for the national medicinal flora. They could be a source of information to search for active ingredients in Rif plants.

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Agrochemical Applications for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Planta Medica ◽

10.1055/s-0031-1282089 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 77 (12) ◽

Author(s):

DE Wedge

Keyword(s):

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants

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Introducing green technology for extraction of medicinal and aromatic plants to Egypt

Planta Medica ◽

10.1055/s-0033-1352264 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 79 (13) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

NS Abdel-Azim ◽

KA Shams ◽

MM El-Missery ◽

SI Ismail ◽

FM hammouda

Keyword(s):

Green Technology ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants

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Ex Situ Conservation of Rare Medicinal Plants in the Botanical Garden (Institute) of Academy of Sciences of Moldova

Acta Horti Botanici Bucurestiensis ◽

10.2478/ahbb-2013-0005 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 43-48

Author(s):

Nina Ciocârlan

Keyword(s):

Native Species ◽

Ex Situ Conservation ◽

Botanical Garden ◽

Ex Situ ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽

Field Collection ◽

Ecological Flexibility ◽

Cultivation Techniques ◽

Academy Of Sciences

Abstract This work refers to the native species of genus Astragalus L. (A. dasyanthus, A. ponticus), Adonis L. (A. vernalis, A. wolgensis) and Digitalis L. (D. lanata, D. grandiflora). The plants are cultivated in the Botanical Garden of Moldova in the field collection of the medicinal and aromatic plants. Investigation includes propagation aspects, research into cultivation techniques and conservation measures. The biological particularities and the phenologic rhythm are also registered. The obtained data shows the ecological flexibility of species and the possibility of preserving them in culture.

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MANAGEMENT OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS IN PIATRA CRAIULUI NATIONAL PARK

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal ◽

10.30638/eemj.2010.230 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (12) ◽

pp. 1671-1679

Author(s):

Oliviu Grigore Pop ◽

Angela Marculescu ◽

Romulus Gruia

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants

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Antioxidant status of medicinal and aromatic plants under the influence of growth-promoting rhizobacteria and osmotic stress

Industrial Crops and Products ◽

10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.113541 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 167 ◽

pp. 113541

Author(s):

Julieta Chiappero ◽

Lorena del Rosario Cappellari ◽

Tamara Belén Palermo ◽

Walter Giordano ◽

Naeem Khan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Osmotic Stress ◽

Antioxidant Status ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽

Growth Promoting

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Emotional Reasoning and Psychopathology

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci11040471 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 471

Author(s):

Amelia Gangemi ◽

Margherita Dahò ◽

Francesco Mancini

Keyword(s):

Negative Affect ◽

Psychological Disorders ◽

External World ◽

Adult Patients ◽

Dysfunctional Beliefs ◽

Emotional Reasoning ◽

Evaluative Judgments ◽

External Events ◽

Source Of Information ◽

Valid Information

One of the several ways in which affect may influence cognition is when people use affect as a source of information about external events. Emotional reasoning, ex-consequentia reasoning, and affect-as-information are terms referring to the mechanism that can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated. Pre-existing emotions may thus bias evaluative judgments of unrelated events or topics. From this perspective, the more people experience a particular kind of affect, the more they may rely on it as a source of valid information. Indeed, in several studies, it was found that adult patients suffering from psychological disorders tend to use negative affect to estimate the negative event as more severe and more likely and to negatively evaluate preventive performance. The findings on this topic have contributed to the debate that theorizes the use of emotional reasoning as responsible for the maintenance of dysfunctional beliefs and the pathological disorders based on these beliefs. The purpose of this paper is to explore this topic by reviewing and discussing the main studies in this area, leading to a deeper understanding of this phenomenon.

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Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological studies of medicinal and aromatic plants used in the treatment of metabolic diseases in the Moroccan Rif

Heliyon ◽

10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02191 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (10) ◽

pp. e02191 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Noureddine Chaachouay ◽

Ouafae Benkhnigue ◽

Mohamed Fadli ◽

Hamid El Ibaoui ◽

Lahcen Zidane

Keyword(s):

Metabolic Diseases ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants

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Allelopathic effects of leachates of Juglans regia L., Populus tremula L. and juglone on germination of temperate zone cultivated medicinal and aromatic plants

Agroforestry Systems ◽

10.1007/s10457-020-00572-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 95 (2) ◽

pp. 431-442

Author(s):

Péter Zubay ◽

Jakob Kunzelmann ◽

András Ittzés ◽

Éva Németh Zámboriné ◽

Krisztina Szabó

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Juglans Regia ◽

Agroforestry Systems ◽

Temperate Zone ◽

Populus Tremula ◽

Environmental Benefits ◽

Allelopathic Effect ◽

Aromatic Plants ◽

Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽

Allelopathic Effects

AbstractThe environmental benefits of agroforestry systems are well known. However, current knowledge of potential allelopathic interactions is inadequate. The decrease in soil fertility, the increasingly rhapsodic distribution of precipitation, and the special metabolism and cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants are all harbingers of medicinal-agroforestry systems. The authors aimed to discover the allelopathic effects of Juglans regia L. and Populus tremula L. on germination of medicinal and aromatic plants cultivated in a temperate zone. Accordingly, an in vitro germination trial was conducted with leachates of these trees and two juglone concentrations. These allelopathic effects were evaluated for germination vigour, germination rate, and total fresh weight of seedlings of twelve different species. A pronounced species specificity was observed in tolerance of seeds and seedlings to the allelopathic effect of Populus and Juglans. In four of the species studied, the allelopathic effect may inhibit germination, but only initially. Poppy and angelica proved to be the most sensitive to the treatments. The following species had relative tolerance to the allelochemicals, so further research under natural conditions is suggested for: Althea officinalis L. (9.34 ± 5.04–68.66 ± 13.62 GR%), Anethum graveolens L. (12.00 ± 2.00–100.00 ± 6.12 GR%), Cannabis sativa L. (72.66 ± 9.02–91.34 ± 1.16 GR%), Dracocephalum moldavica L. (38.00 ± 2.00–80.00 ± 17.44 GR%), Linum usitatissimum L. (44.66 ± 2.00–58.00 ± 3.46 GR%), and Satureja hortensis L. (52.00 ± 28.22–82.00 ± 8.00 GR%). The aim would be to introduce them into agroforestry systems.

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