Abstract
Psychological complications appear to be significant disorders which need prolonged recovery period. They cause disability and impose hospitalized costs on patients. This systematic review was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of medicinal herbs on psychological indices in patients undergoing surgeries. The keywords such as anxiety, depression, aggressive, impulsive, stress, delirium and cognitive in combination with surgery and medicinal plants search terms such as medicinal plant or phyto or herb were used to search for relevant publications indexed in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Scopus and PubMed using EndNote software. A total of 1231 studies with mentioned keywords were added to the bank of the study and after considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, 36 human studies were reviewed. Some medicinal plants such as Passiflora incarnata L., Valeriana officinalis L., Melissa officinalis L., Crocus sativus L., and Rosa damascena Mill. and some herbal formulas like Hochu-ekki-to and Yokukansan and also some phytochemicals such as ?-6 PUFA and Gastrodin reduce the psychological symptoms in several ways in the patients undergoing operation. Most of the clinical studies were carried out on aromatherapy and the others were based on oral administration. Taken together, using medicinal herbs in medical settings before and after surgery is an effective alternative way for alleviating some psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, aggressive and impulsive behavior, stress, delirium and cognitive dysfunction. However, the surgeons and anesthesiologists must be aware of their interaction and possible complications.
Highlights
Surgical patients may undergo several psychological complications that can disturb the recovery trend and discharge from the hospital and Horizon e-Publishing Group impose extra costs on them [1, 2]
Patients awaiting surgery and postoperative patients who suffer from anxiety, stress, depression, delirium and other psychological disorders needs treatment and prophylaxis approaches for addressing and controlling these complications [1, 8]
This review aims to investigate the effectiveness of medicinal herbs on psychological indices in patients undergoing surgery
Summary
Surgical patients may undergo several psychological complications that can disturb the recovery trend and discharge from the hospital and Horizon e-Publishing Group impose extra costs on them [1, 2]. Patients awaiting surgery and postoperative patients who suffer from anxiety, stress, depression, delirium and other psychological disorders needs treatment and prophylaxis approaches for addressing and controlling these complications [1, 8]. Use of medicinal plants in the treatment of diseases is one of the most popular methods because they are more safer than pharmaceutical drugs [10,11,12,13,14]. Several studies have shown that medicinal herbs and their active ingredients, bioflavonoids, volatile oils and other substances can be effective, efficient and cheap for treatment against various disorders, such as psychological disorders [15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23].
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