Critical Review on Medhya Drugs as an Adjuvant to Overcome Adverse Effect of Long Term Use of Anticonvulsant Drugs in Children
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Cognition is the mental process which incorporates memory, calculation, understanding and making dialect, reasoning, attention of operating, problem solving and higher cognitive process. High-quality kid development centres within the world have placed priority on children's intellectual learning. The rates of unfavourable impacts could be a basic issue while endorsing antiepileptic medicinal drug (AED’s), as a large portion of the anticonvulsant drug have unfriendly impact on psychological feature of youngsters. Present paper is an audit to overhaul learning on range of adverse effects on psychological feature coupled to a range of newer and older anticonvulsant medication used to control seizures, trailed by a discussion relating to medha/ buddhi (intellect), medhyarasayana and use of Ayurvedic medhya dravya to minimize adverse drug reactions (ADR’s), major chemical constituents, therapeutic actions, pharmacologic properties, and doable mode of action of the chosen herbs from Ayurvedic literature. At the same time, it conjointly reveal for additional analysis and use of medhya rasayana (nootropic herbs) as an adjuvant therapy to minimize or conquer adverse impact of long run use of antiepileptic medication in kids.
Authors and Affiliations
Deepak J Londhe, Shital Chinchalkar, Abhijit Kumbhar
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