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...occasional blues. The new study you wrote about included 200 subjects, all of whom suffered from "major depression." Perhaps before discounting the herb's effectiveness, researchers should target folks having mild depression. St. John's wort seems to work for me--but heck, I also occasionally take ginkgo biloba to increase mental agility and clear thinking! MEL DAVIS Addison, Texas
Coming as it did amid reports that federal regulators are about to call for tighter controls on dietary supplements, including the memory pill Ginkgo biloba (which has been found to cause excessive bleeding and, in rare cases, stroke), the study's conclusions touched a raw nerve among those who see herbal medicine as a gentler, more natural route to healing. The nonprofit American Botanical Council issued a stinging press release criticizing the research as inconclusive, and the supplement industry's Council for Responsible Nutrition said there was nothing in the study that showed St. John's wort wouldn't work...
...scary how clueless we are." Desperate patients consult half a dozen specialists and get half a dozen conflicting opinions. "Well, of course," Dr. Toby Brown, a Manassas, Va., radiologist says impatiently, "it's not as if medicine is a science." Hence the appeal of alternative medicine: aromatherapy, homeopathy, ginkgo biloba. Proponents may be crusading scientists or snake-oil salesmen, but either way, their pitch falls on eager ears: each year Americans spend some $27 billion on so-called complementary medicine. "One lesson of the alternative health-care movement," McCall warns, "is that the public is not going to wait...
...scary how clueless we are." Desperate patients consult half a dozen specialists and get half a dozen conflicting opinions. "Well, of course," Dr. Toby Brown, a Manassas, Va., radiologist says impatiently, "it's not as if medicine is a science." Hence the appeal of alternative medicine: aromatherapy, homeopathy, ginkgo biloba. Proponents may be crusading scientists or snake-oil salesmen, but either way, their pitch falls on eager ears: each year Americans spend some $27 billion on so-called complementary medicine. "One lesson of the alternative health-care movement," McCall warns, "is that the public is not going to wait...
...anesthesiologists' warning is based on the latest of several findings that are raising doctors' awareness of the risks associated with natural supplements. Take, for instance, ginkgo biloba, used by almost 11 million Americans to improve memory and increase blood circulation. Doctors now believe ginkgo may reduce the number of platelets in the blood and can prevent blood from clotting properly. Taking ginkgo at the same time one is taking blood-thinning medications, like Coumadin or even aspirin, could make a patient dangerously vulnerable to bleeding...