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WORT-LESS Here's a downer about the wildly popular herbal antidepressant Saint-John's-wort. However potent its many fans may believe the pretty yellow flower's extract to be, it interacts dangerously with two medications: the antirejection drug cyclosporine, used in organ transplants, and the protease inhibitor indinavir, used to treat AIDS. In both cases, Saint-John's-wort reduced blood concentrations of the drug, rendering it less effective...
...truth, many herbal remedies haven't been proven to work, and often gain popularity by word of mouth...
...study conducted in Germany by Dieter Melchart and Klaus Linke found that excessive herbal remedies caused strain on the liver and may have caused liver failure in patients...
...Strohl points out that store employees themselves may not be able to help much when it comes to an herbal prescription...
...According to Danischewski and Strohl, most employees at health food stores have been trained with herbal companies or individual herbalists, but training is not a requirement. Most employees can offer knowledgeable opinions based on the information they pick up while working at their stores...