Table 2.

Negative entropy, complementary, effects of adaptogens

Adaptogen	Disease	Complementary effect	Investigators/reference
Acanthopanacis senticosus	Parkinson	Cytoprotective	Fujikawa al. (48)
	Coronary heart	Protective	Sui et al. (49)
	Cancer metastasis	Immune stimulant	Yoon et al. (50)
Cornu Cervi pantotrichum	Arthritis	Suppressed arthritis develop	Kim et al. (29)
	Immune	Immunepotentiating	Zhang et al. (30)
Ilex paraguariensis	Cardiovascular	Diuretic and hypotensive	Gorgen et al. (31)
	Myocarditis	Cardioprotective	Schinella et al. (51)
	Oral carcinoma	Inhibits cancer cell	Gonzalez et al. (52)
Lepidium meyenii	Male infertility	Spermatogenesis increase	Gonzalez et al. (53)
	Benign prostate hyperplasia	Proapoptotic and antiproliferative	Gonzalez et al. (54)
	Diabetes	Hypoglycaemic activity	Eddouks et al. (55)
Ocimum Sanctum	Heart	Boosts endogenous antioxidants	Sood et al. (56)
	Diabetes	Hypoglycaemic	Gholap and Kar (57)
	Cerebrovascular insufficiency	Neuroprotective	Yanpellawar et al. (58)
Panax ginseng	Diabetes	Improves insulin sensitivity	Liu et al. (59)
	Senility	Neuroprotective	Bao et al. (60)
	Cancer	Chemopreventive and antimutagenic	Panwar et al. (61)
Panax quinquefolius	Diabetes mellitus II	Attenuates post-prandial glycemia	Vuksan et al. (62)
	Breast cancer	Inhibits MCF-7 cancer cell growth	Duda et al. (63)
Pfaffia paniculata	Cancer	Anti-inflammatory	Matsuzaki et al. (64)
	Leukemia	Suppressive effects	Watanabe et al. (65)
Ptychopetalum olacoides	Memory loss	Facilitates memory retrieval	da Silva et al. (66)
Rhaponticum carthamoides	Arrhythmia	Eliminates arrhythmia	Kurmukov and Ermishina (67)
	Diabetes	Insulin sensitivity increased	Kosovskii et al. (68)
Rhodiola rosea	Arrhythmia	Anti-arrhythmic effect	Maimeskulova et al. (69)
	Fatigue	Reduces fatigue	Darbinyan et al. (45)
Schizandra chinensis	Ulcer	Anti-Helicobacter pylori action	Li et al. (70)
	Ischemia	Cardioprotection	Chiu and Ko (71)
	Menopause symptoms	Nitric oxide-mediated vasorelaxation	Lee et al. (72)