Drug for treating depression

Abstract

The invention discloses a drug for treating depression. The drug is prepared by evenly mixing 0.3-99.7 parts by weight of industrial hemp seed extract and 99.7-0.3 parts by weight of industrial cannabinoid. It is proved through experiments that the drug can significantly shorten the tail suspension immobilization time of mice of a behavioral despair depression model and significantly shorten immobility time of forced swimming, has an obvious anti-depressant effect on a mouse depression model caused by reserpine and can significantly increase the frequency of spontaneous activities of the mice, and the effects are all superior to those of cannabidiol. The drug can be used for preparing drugs for treating various depression symptoms including endogenous depression, reactive depression, masked depression, secondary depression caused by drugs, climacteric or postnatal depression, depression caused by cerebral trauma or cerebral apoplexy, diabetes combined depression and depressive neurosis and used for preparing drugs for treating symptoms such as secondary learning memory decline and anhedonia caused by depression.

Description

technical field

[0001] The invention belongs to the field of drugs for treating depression, and in particular relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating depression prepared from industrial hemp as a main raw material. Background technique

[0002] The cultivation of hemp has a long history. In ancient times, hemp was mainly used to make and process ropes, fishing nets, clothing and paper-making raw materials, as well as oil and food. With the development and progress of society, people found that a toxic ingredient (tetrahydrocannabinol) in marijuana can make people addicted to hallucinations. Many countries in Europe and the United States have banned the cultivation of marijuana for a long time. Due to the high economic value of cannabis, by the 1980s, some European countries had researched and bred low-toxic cannabis varieties and promoted their cultivation. In 1990, the European Community took the lead in urgently revising the agricultural policy, abolished the...