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SUBMITTER: Djamshidian A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353393 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Djamshidian Atbin A Bernschneider-Reif Sabine S Poewe Werner W Lees Andrew J AJ
Movement disorders clinical practice 20151006 1
<i>Banisteriopsis caapi</i>, a liana indigenous to the Amazon basin with metagnomigenic properties and possible anti-depressant effects is one of the natural sources of harmala alkaloids. A summary of early trials with extracts of <i>Banisteriopsis caapi</i> and <i>Peganum harmala</i> (from which harmine was first isolated) in the 1920s and 1930s on various forms of parkinsonism is given as well as a brief overview of the known pharmacological properties of harmine. Despite its earlier abandonme ...[more]