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Vitex agnus castus L.,—traditional drug and actual indications

✍ Scribed by Karl Peter Odenthal

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
60 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0951-418X

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✦ Synopsis

There is a long tradition for the use of different preparations of drugs of Vitex agnus castus in complementary medicine in Europe. The indications in disorders of the female sexual cycle have been confirmed by experimental and clinical results. The activity of hitherto unidentified constituents of the ethanol seed extract could be localized within the pituitary-gonadal axis. Research in pituitary cell assays further elucidated a dopaminergic inhibition of prolactin synthesis and/or release. The effective administration of ethanol seed extracts against mastodynia and symptoms related to female cycle disorders with concomitant hyperprolactinaemia has been documented and awaits further establishment.

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