Word: herbal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Defenders of herbal medicine will argue that this study involved test subjects with moderate to severe depression, where most of the European studies involved mild depression, and that St. John's Wort was never marketed as a solution to those grades of depression...
...study, sponsored by Pfizer (maker of both the antidepressant heavyweight Zoloft and herbal supplements) and the National Institutes of Mental Health, included 200 patents who took either St. John's Wort or a placebo pill for eight weeks each. The patients who took the herb showed very little or no improvement in their depression - the same results as the patients taking the placebo...
...soon to tell just yet. There's another study going on right now comparing St. John's Wort with Zoloft, and those results aren't out yet. But I do think overall that the public mood regarding herbal supplements is coming back to center. We're seeing a new era of caution; over the past couple of years we've seen that these "all natural" supplements can interact with traditional drugs and have very real side effects. So at this point, a little caution is definitely a good thing...
...seeing the beginning of the end of the herbal...
...guiding hand behind these gentle cures is Low Dog--whose name reflects her Native American heritage. In her teens, she studied herbal cures with traditional healers and learned the power of curative plants. But botanicals, she decided, weren't the whole answer. Wellness meant stress management too. It also meant being willing to use the powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with...