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The Use of Passiflora Incarnata
Extracts of Passiflora Incarnata have potential effects for the treatment of many different symptoms of psychical and physical diseases. Examples diseases which can be treated with these extracts are insomnia, anxiety but also attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, hypertension and cancer. The medicinal use of Passiflora Incarnata often differs per country or region.

After brought to Europe it became a popular remedy in phyotherapy and a homoeopathic remedy for the relief of mild symptoms of mental stress, anxiety nervousness, constipation, dispepsia, mild infections and insomnia. “Today, passionflower is officially included in the national pharmacopeias of France, Germany, and Switzerland and is also monographed in the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia and the British Herbal Compendium, the ESCOP monographs, the Community Herbal Monographs of the EMA, the German Standard Licences, the German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and the Pharmacopeia of Egypt. In Poland, it has been prescribed to cure disorders such as hysteria and neurasthenia. Presently, Passiflora incarnata is commonly used in phytotherapy as a mild sedative and anxiolytic. The botanical drugs included in the current European and British Pharmacopoeias are the dried aerial parts of the plant”.

In North America it is used for the treatment of diarrhoea, premenstrual syndrome, dysmenorrhoea, neuralgia, burns, haemorrhoids, insomnia, muscle cramps, hysteria, neuralgia, and as a pain reliever for various conditions. Passiflora incarnata is still used by Native Americans, for example Cherokees use the root of the plant as topical antiinflammatory medicine. Tea made from the roots is used as a tonic for the liver and for skin boils. The extracts of passiflora incarnata are also used for the relief of nervousness, abdominal cramps and anxiety.

In other parts of the world, passiflora incarnata is used for the treatment of partially different diseases. For example in Argentina and Mexico, it is consumed for its sedative effects, whereas in Brazil it is used as an analgesic, antispasmodic, anti-asthmatic, wormicidal and sedative. In India however, it has been used to treat morphine dependence, but in Vietnam sleeplessness, anxiety and high blood pressure have been treated with extracts from this plant. In the Middle East passiflora incarnata has again slightly different applications, for example in Turkey, dysmenorrhoea, epilepsy, insomnia, neurosis and neuralgia are treated with passiflora incarnata. But it has also been used as a sedative and narcotic medicine in Iraq. “In the African countries of Rwanda, Kenya and Congo passiflora incarnata is used as a folk remedy by herbalists and natural health practitioners for its sedative, nervine, anti-spasmodic and analgesic effects. In Australia, it is commonly prescribed as a sedative and anxiolytic medicine.