Digital addiction in children and herbal pharmacotherapy: A scientific review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70066/jahm.v13i9.2376Keywords:
Digital addiction, children, Medhya Rasayana, Nootropic plants, PsychotherapyAbstract
Background: Technology is an integral part of daily lie; children overly reliant on digital devices for entertainment, social interaction, and even learning. Besides the ample usefulness in education, opportunities, and access to knowledge the negative consequences include impaired social skills, reduced physical activity, altered sleep, tantrums, anxiety and depression. Other risks include eye strain, refractive errors, headaches, poor attention, concentration and postural defects.
Objective: To explore herbal pharmacotherapy for digital addiction in children
Methods:
Search strategy: A comprehensive literature review done through open access, full text publications in English on digital addiction (DA) for last 10 years. Database searched were PubMed, Google Scholar and Science Direct with key words complying with MeSH namely ‘Digital Addiction in children and adolescent’, ‘Internet Addiction’, ‘Computer Addiction’, ‘Video Game Addiction’, ‘Smartphone Addiction’ and ‘Social media addiction’ using Boolean operator (‘AND’ ‘OR’ ‘NOT’). Duplications, citations, bibliographic index, textbooks, validation studies were excluded.
Results: Initially 17151 articles identified, subsequently curtailed to 800 through preliminary screening. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 175 publications were identified of which 54 most relevant manuscripts were referenced in this write up. Out of them 40 papers primarily focused on over view of DA, its pathophysiology, underlying brain mechanisms and existing interventions rest 14 explored herbal interventions. Ayurveda concepts were deduced based Samhita and Ayurveda pharmacopeia. However, plant-based interventions specifically targeting digital addiction largely remained unexplored and under researched except for few to treat substance abuse.
Conclusion: At the outset nootropic medicinal plants from Ayurveda pharmacopeia were promising to treat DA based on preliminary research. Further longitudinal research and controlled studies essential to establish their safety and efficacy.
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