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์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ น ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋‚ด ๊ณ„์ •์—์„œ ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ “Melissa officinalis(๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ์˜คํ”ผ์‹œ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ์Šค)"๋ผ๋Š” ํ•™๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค — ์ด ๋•Œ, “Melissa(๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ)”๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์–ด๋กœ “๊ฟ€๋ฒŒ”์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค — ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ “์ƒ๋ช…์˜ ๊ณผ์ฆ™”, “๋งŒ๋ณ‘ ํ†ต์น˜์•ฝ”, “๋ฏผํŠธ ๋ฐค” ๋˜๋Š” “๋ฒŒ๊ฟ€ ์‹๋ฌผ”์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณผ ์‹๋ฌผ๋กœ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์ด ์›์‚ฐ์ง€์ด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋ฐ์€ ์ดˆ๋ก์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ, ํ•˜ํŠธ ๋ชจ์–‘์˜ ์ž‘์€ ์žŽ์—, ํฌ๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ž€ ๊ฝƒ์†ก์ด๊ฐ€ ํ”ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฏผํŠธ์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์ •์›์— ์‹ฌ์–ด๋„ ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉฐ ์•ฝ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ค‘์„ธ ์ดํ›„ ์˜์•ฝ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์™€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์™€ ์‹ธ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์•ฝํšจ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๊ทธ ํ–ฅ์ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์š”๋ฆฌ์—๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค :

๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ

๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด๋ž€ ์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•  ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋‘๋ ค์›€์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋ฐ ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ์žฅ์• ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ์ค‘๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ, ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„๋“ฑ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ•œ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ๋งค๋…„ 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์„ฑ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋ฉฐ, ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ ์–ต ๋ช…์ด ํฌ๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์€ ์ข…์ข… ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Œ€์ฒด ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฑด์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. GABA(๊ฐ๋งˆ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ๋ฆญ ์‚ฐ, Gamma-aminobutyric acid)๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘๋‡Œ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2017๋…„, ํŒŒ์ดํ†  ํ…Œ๋ผํ”ผ ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜์‹œ(Phytotherapy Research)์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ GABA ์ƒํ•ฉ์„ฑ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์˜ํ•™์ ์ธ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด GABA ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์›๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ GABA์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2016๋…„์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ํ•œ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์„ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ GABA ์ž๊ทน ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋กœ์ฆˆ๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ๋‹‰ ์‚ฐ(Rosmarinic acid)์ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์ฆ์ƒ ์™„ํ™”์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ•œ, ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ ์•ฝ ๋ณต์šฉ์„ ์ž„์˜๋กœ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์˜์‚ฌ์™€ ์ƒ์˜ ์—†์ด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์˜ค์ผ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์šฐ์šธ์ฆ

์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์ด๋ž€ ์Šฌํ”” ๋ฐ ์‚ถ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์„ ์ƒ์‹คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Š๋‚Œ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฐ์ • ์žฅ์• ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์ด ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด ์ž์‚ด๋กœ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ชจ๋“  ์—ฐ๋ น๋Œ€์™€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹ด๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๋‡Œ์„ธํฌ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹ ํ˜ธ ์ „๋‹ฌ ํ™”ํ•™ ๋ฌผ์งˆ(์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์ „๋‹ฌ ๋ฌผ์งˆ)์ธ ์„ธ๋กœํ† ๋‹Œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ํ•ญ์šฐ์šธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์„ธ๋กœํ† ๋‹Œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์˜ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฅ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œํ–‰๋œ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์—๋„ ์„ธ๋กœํ† ๋‹Œ ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฌผ์— ํƒ€์„œ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ์ฅ๋“ค์€ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ์ฅ๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด "์šฐ์šธ์ฆ ์œ ์‚ฌ ํ–‰๋™์ด ์ƒ๋‹น์ด ๊ฐ์†Œ๋œ ์„ฑํ–ฅ”์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ ์ฆ์ƒ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์™€ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ

์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์‚ถ์—์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์••๋ฐ•๊ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์— ํฐ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์งˆํ™˜ ๋ฐ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ”๋ฅดํ‹ฐ์†”์ด ๋‘๋‡Œ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋žœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋น„๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฐฑํ˜ˆ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฉด์—ญ ์ฒด๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•ฝํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ์—ผ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ž‘์šฉ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ํšจ๋Šฅ์€ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ์„œ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ์™„ํ™”์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ณด์ถฉ ๋Œ€์•ˆ ์˜ํ•™ ๋ฐ ๋ณด์™„ ๋Œ€์ฒด ์˜ํ•™ ํ•™ํšŒ์ง€(Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine)์—๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ฐ›๋Š” 12์„ธ ์ดํ•˜์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋“ค์„ ๊ธธ์ดˆ๊ทผ(๋ฐœ๋ ˆ๋ฆฌ์•ˆ) ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์ด ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฅ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๋„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์•ผ์…ฐ๋ฏธ(Hajhashemi)์™€ ์‚ฌํŽ˜์ด(Safaei)๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ "์ตœ๋ฉด ํšจ๊ณผ"๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋“ค์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค๊ณผ ๋ผ๋ฒค๋”(Lavandula angustifolia) ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ์ฅ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋นจ๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฉดํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์™€ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•  ๋•Œ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ฆ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ๊ฐ์—ผ

์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฐ์—ผ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์— ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ ์ฐจ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์—๋Š” ํ•ญ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์™€ ํ•ญ๊ท  ํšจ๊ณผ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ œ๋†€, ํ…Œ๋ฅดํŽœ ๋ฐ ๋กœ์ฆˆ๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ๋‹‰ ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์„ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ• ๋ฐœ์ง„์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœ ํฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค(Herpes simplex virus, HSV)์— ๋†’์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋ฉ”๋””์ปฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ (University of Maryland Medical Center)๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ์˜์•ฝ์  ์šฉ๋„๋ฅผ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์—๋ฅผ๋ฆฌํžˆ(Steven Ehrlich) ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ฐ• ํฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์— ์˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ• ํฌ์ง„ ํ™˜์ž 116๋ช…์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ํฌ๋ฆผ์„ ์ž…์ˆ ์— ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋‹จ 2 ์ผ ๋งŒ์— ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ํ˜ธ์ „๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…์ผ ํ”ผ๋ถ€๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœ ํฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ฃผ์š” ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์˜€๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ์žฌ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Œ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, 2017๋…„์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์„ธ๊ท ์ธ ๋Œ€์žฅ๊ท ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋งŽ์€ ์„ธ๊ท ์— ํ•ญ๊ท  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํ•ญ๊ท , ํ•ญ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์„ฑ์งˆ์ด ์ƒ์‹๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ• ํฌ์ง„ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์— ๋ชจ๋‘ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž„์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ

๋งŽ์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ์‹ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์—์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜๋Š”, ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ๋Š” ์„ธํฌ ์†์ƒ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์œ  ์œ ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ(Free radical)๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฐํ™” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ๋Š” ์„ธํฌ ์†์ƒ์„ ๋ง‰๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชธ์— ์ข‹์€ ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™” ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์— ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ํŽ˜๋†€ ํ•จ์œ  ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์ธ ํ”Œ๋ผ๋ณด๋…ธ์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋†๋„๋กœ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ž€์˜ ์ƒค๋ ˆ์ฝ”๋“œ ์˜๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ•™(Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences)์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฃผ์•ˆ์ ์„ ๋‘” ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™” ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ์‹๋ฌผ์˜ ํŽ˜๋†€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์ „์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ

ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ๊ณผํ•™ ํ•™ํšŒ์ง€(Journal of Dermatological Science)์—๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์ด ์ž์™ธ์„ (UV)์— ์˜ํ•œ ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ์†์ƒ์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์™ธ์„ ์€ ํ”ผ๋ถ€์•”์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋…ธํ™”์™€ ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์—๋Š” "๋ฉœ๋ผ๋‹Œ ์ƒ์„ฑ(Melanogenesis)" ํŠน์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์–ด (๊ฒ€๋ฒ„์„ฏ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ํ•˜๋Š”) ํƒœ์–‘ ๋ฐ˜์ ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค๋„ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‚ฐํ™” ๋ฐฉ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด ํ”ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†Œํ™”๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰

๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰, ์ฆ‰ ์ƒ๋ณต๋ถ€ ํ†ต์ฆ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์œ„ ์‹๋„ ์—ญ๋ฅ˜ ์งˆํ™˜(GERD), ๊ถค์–‘, ์œ„์—ผ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ณผ๋ฏผ์„ฑ ๋Œ€์žฅ ์ฆํ›„๊ตฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฆ์ƒ์˜ ์ง•ํ›„๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค๊ณผ ํŽ˜ํผ๋ฏผํŠธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์นด๋ชจ๋งˆ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๋Š” ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ์™„ํ™”์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š”, 120๋ช…์˜ ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„๋กœ ์ถ”์ถœํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ํ•จ์œ ํ•œ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์•ฝ์ œ๋‚˜ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ํ›„, ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ์™„ํ™” ๋ฐ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์•ฝ 40์ข…์˜ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ ์ฐจ๋กœ ์Œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ™” ๋ถˆ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์Šน์ธํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ข…์–‘

2015๋…„์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์—๋Š” ํ•ญ์•” ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•” ์„ธํฌ์˜ ์•” ํ™œ๋™์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ํšจ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ํ•ญ์—ผ์ฆ ํŠน์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•” ์น˜๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์ด ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค๊ณผ ์•”์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํ•ญ์•” ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ•œ, ์•” ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ

์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์ธ์ง€ ํ–‰๋™ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ๋ฆฌํ•™ ์ƒํ™”ํ•™ ๋ฐ ํ–‰๋™ํ•™ ํ•™ํšŒ์ง€(Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior)์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ํ•œ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 20๋ช…์˜ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋†๋„์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ 600mg ํˆฌ์•ฝํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ์ด ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2016๋…„, ์ด๋ž€ ์˜ํ•™ ํ•™ํšŒ์ง€(Journal of Medical Sciences)์— ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” "์ž„์ƒ ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ์•Œ์ธ ํ•˜์ด๋จธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์— ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค”๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ๋˜๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ถ”์ถœ๋ฌผ์˜ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธ๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์˜๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฝ๋ฏธํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„์˜ ์•Œ์ธ ํ•˜์ด๋จธ ํ™˜์ž๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ํšจ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ์„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์•Œ์ธ ํ•˜์ด๋จธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์— ์œ ํšจํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์น˜๋งค์™€ ์•Œ์ธ ํ•˜์ด๋จธ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ์  ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์š”๋ฆฌ

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ์žŽ์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ๊ณผ ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๋ง›์ด ๋‚˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏผํŠธ์˜ ํ–ฅ๋„ ์‚ด์ง ๋Š๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ง›๊ณผ ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์š”๋ฆฌ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์žŽ์„ ์ž˜๋ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ธˆ๋ฅ˜ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๋Ÿฌ๋“œ ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ”„์— ์ฒจ๊ฐ€ํ•ด ๋ณด์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋‹ญ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋‚˜ ์ƒ์„  ์š”๋ฆฌ์™€๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ง› ์ข‹์€ ๋””์ €ํŠธ์˜ ์žฅ์‹์—๋„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •์›์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ํ‚ค์›Œ ๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์”จ์•—๊ณผ ์ค„๊ธฐ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š˜์ง„ ๊ณณ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ฌ์–ด์„œ ํ•œ๋‚ฎ์˜ ํ–‡๋ณ•์„ ํ”ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ์ด‰์ด‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ํ† ์–‘์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ตœ๋Œ€ 24-36์ธ์น˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž๋ž„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์  ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์žฌ๋ฐฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๊ต์  ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ์‹๋ฌผ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋” ์žŽ์„ ์ž˜๋ผ ์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ๋…น์ƒ‰ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์ Š์Œ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์‹œ๋“  ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์ผ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ง€์น˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์–ด์•ผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—๋Š” ๋งค์ผ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋Š” ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ์˜์–‘ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์— ๋”์šฑ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์˜ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์™€ ์šฉ๋„

  • ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ๋ณด์ถฉ์ œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์žŽ์„ ์บก์Š์— ํฌ์žฅํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถŒ์žฅ ๋ณต์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์€ 500 mg ์ •์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ผ 1-2ํšŒ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์—์„ผ์…œ ์˜ค์ผ์€ ์˜จ ๋ชธ์— ๋ฌธ์งˆ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ง„์ • ์ž‘์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ธด์žฅ ์™„ํ™”์— ์ข‹์•„ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์„ผ์…œ ์˜ค์ผ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ํก์ž…ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋””ํ“จ์ €๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์…”๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์—ฐ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ”ผ๋ถ€์— ๋ฐ”๋ฅด์‹œ๋ฉด ํ”ผ๋ถ€ ์งˆํ™˜์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ๋ฆฝ ๋ฐค์€ ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๊ฑด์กฐํ•จ๊ณผ ์ž๊ทน ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ๋ง›๊ณผ ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž ์žฌ์  ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ

๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์€ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํšจ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ฃผ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Melissa officinalis(๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ์˜คํ”ผ์‹œ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ์Šค)๋Š” ์ €ํ˜ˆ์••๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€๋” GABA ๋งค๊ฐœ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•๋™ (๋นˆ๋งฅ)์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์Šน์ธ์ด ์—†๋Š” ํ•œ, ์ž„์‚ฐ๋ถ€๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜์œ  ์ค‘์ธ ๋ถ„์€ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ํ”ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ชฌ ๋ฐค์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•ญ ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ์•ˆ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ „์—๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ์™€ ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

์ฐธ๊ณ  ๋ฌธํ—Œ:

*๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์ž‘์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ์•” ํ—ค๋ฅด๋‚œ๋ฐ์ฆˆ ํ•™์‚ฌ(Miriam Hernandez, BS)์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋œป์„ ํ‘œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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