Description
Herbal collection of valerian root is used in official and folk medicine as a sedative. Valerian depresses the central nervous system, reduces its excitability; reduces spasms of smooth muscle organs.
Valerian essential oil weakens convulsions caused by the alkaloid brucine, similar in pharmacological properties to strychnine; reduces excitation caused by caffeine, prolongs the effect of sleeping pills, has an inhibitory effect on the systems of the medulla oblongata and midbrain, increases the functional mobility of cortical processes.
Valerian root is used as a sedative for insomnia, nervous excitement, neurosis of the cardiovascular system, accompanied by spasm of the coronary vessels, tachycardia, as well as for epilepsy, asthma, migraine, for the treatment of neurodermatitis, as well as for neuroses of the stomach.
