Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials
Open Access

Abstract

Epilepsy is a neuropsychological disorder caused due to sudden surge of electrical activity in brain. It initiates from mild unawareness and then leads to violent synchronous convulsions. In this disorder nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted and causes episodes of seizers and is also responsible for the unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness of the person affected. Conventional pharmacological drugs in the market are not reported to be efficient enough and have also known for various side-effects. There is only about 60-67% success rate for these conventional drugs, which have made the research to shift towards adopting medications primarily comprising of natural plant products having no or less side-effects. Different varieties of plants like, Brahmi harita, Cissus sicoyides, Passion flower and Butea monospora etc have been reported to have anti-convulsant activities. Many of the active phyto-constituents of these plants are reported to have target oriented and activity. Present study describes beneficial effects of few medicinal plants in the treatment of epilepsy.

Biography

Gauransh Jain is currently pursuing Dual BTech-MTech Biotechnology at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida, India.

Email: Gauranshjain12@gmail.com