Adaptogenic drugs increase the resistance, capacity and defenses of the organism in a nonspecific way, stimulating it to react positively to stressful situations; situations that can be variously interpreted as stressful events of a physical or emotional nature, but which, in any case , affect the ability of our body to react, as a whole and as a part (functionality of specific organs).
It is true that these drugs act in a non-specific way, but it is equally true that echinacea, for example, acts on a certain sector of the organism; in fact it has immunostimulating properties and it is therefore possible to place it in a predominantly herbal sector of expression.
Ultimately, therefore, adaptogenic drugs increase organic resistance in a non-specific way; it should be noted, however, that despite the "uniformity of action", from the phytochemical point of view they show extremely diversified characterizations.
Ginkgo
Ginseng
Eleutherococcus
Rhodes
The adaptogenic drugs in the herbal market are many, the ones we have highlighted are the most used; on the market, however, there are other drugs with important adaptogenic functions, such as the "Uncaria tomentosa, a South American plant which uses the bark of the trunk and the root; other herbal products are based on Indian basil.
Plants with adaptogenic functions are very widespread and we can say that the search for these properties from plant sources is very active, since our lifestyle requires us to use these herbal resources to relieve ourselves from the heavy daily commitments. The use of these drugs has a very important economic implication, as well as a clearly explicit "functional expression; in fact, they are an" important slice of the herbal market and pharmacognostic sources.
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