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Treating Anguish with herbs

This article aims to help the reader in the rapid identification of natural remedies useful in the treatment of various symptoms, disorders and pathologies. For some of the listed remedies, this utility may not have been confirmed by sufficient experimental tests conducted with a scientific method. Furthermore, any natural remedy presents potential risks and contraindications.

If available, we therefore recommend that you click on the link corresponding to the individual remedy to learn more about the topic. In any case, we remind you of the importance of avoiding self-treatment and to consult your doctor beforehand to ascertain the absence of contraindications and drug interactions.

Anxiety is an extreme manifestation of anxiety, a feeling of apprehension, uncertainty and fear, exaggeratedly out of proportion to the extent of the problem that generated it. The emotional disturbance that accompanies it is so intense that it causes real physical symptoms, such as tachycardia, heart disease, sweating and tremors.

Against anguish, herbal medicine offers a large array of herbal remedies with anxiolytic and sedative properties.

Useful medicinal plants and supplements against anxiety

Hawthorn (indicated when anguish is accompanied by throbbing, "heart in throat" sensation), passionflower, valerian, chamomile, escoltzia, hypericum, lavender, kava kava, hops, lemon balm, tilia tormentosa, scutellaria. See also: herbal tea for anxiety.