FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: invention is related to phytotherapy. The biologically active supplement possessing antidepressant effect contains L-tryptophan, linseed-oil and vegetal components. The vegetal components are represented by oil extract of mother-of-thyme herb, common origanum herb, St.-John's wort herb, sandy everlasting blossom, common valerian root with rhizomes and elecampane root with rhizomes taken in a ratio of 0.8-1.2:0.8-1.2:0.8-1.2:0.8-1.2:0.8-1.2:0.8-1.2 accordingly and a dried water extract produced by way of expression of the same components after oil extraction. The biologically active supplement production method envisages mixture of the above components. The oil extract is produced by extracting the vegetal raw material with vegetable oil at a temperature of 50-70°C during 5-10 h with subsequent separation of the raw material. The water extract is produced by extracting the raw material, expressed after oil extraction, with water at a temperature of 50-70°C during 5-10 h with subsequent filtrate filtering and drying to produce the dry solid.
EFFECT: invention enables production of a supplement that is efficient in therapy of different forms of stress including sleep disturbance with patients of different age groups, aggressiveness, instability of temper, state of anxiety, has a positive effect on normalisation of the brain electrical activity indices and basic brain blood circulation indices and possessing antioxidant action.
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