Dr. Siegward Elsas, at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Epilepsy Center, has conducted a study to test the safety and effectiveness of using passionflower extract. Dr Elsas collaborated with the research department at Oregon's Wild Harvest, who provided the extract and manufacturing expertise to assist this project.
The work has been published in the following journal:
Phytomedicine. 2010 Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print]
Passiflora incarnata L. (Passionflower) extracts elicit GABA currents in hippocampal neurons in vitro, and show anxiogenic and anticonvulsant effects in vivo, varying with extraction method.
Elsas SM, Rossi DJ, Raber J, White G, Seeley CA, Gregory WL, Mohr C, Pfankuch T, Soumyanath A.