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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...
...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...
After discovering my disappointing budget and skeptical tastes, the shopkeeper directed me up the street to the Chinese medicine counter of the Yue Hwa Chinese Products store. That was like a treasure chest of herbal helpers. I read the box labels and admired the packaging, most of it red and gold, some of it vaguely pornographic. All of the products make wide-ranging claims. East Superman Pills: "Strengthening the functional activities of the loins and knees, and the sinews and the bone as well." Strong Man Bao: "Fights recurring back aches, depression, degeneration and impotency." Chinese Dragon Tonic: "Battles impotence...
That was two weeks ago. The Sinphar Supra Softgels have yet to manifest any effect. There's no extra lead in my pencil and, I can only hope, none in the rest of my system either. (There have been frequent reports of herbal remedies containing dangerous levels of lead.) The spray turned out to be an awful product. It comes in a floral-print bottle and you're directed to spray it on liberally a few minutes before making love. The problem was that my brand didn't merely desensitize: it burned like Ben Gay. This made...