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...have been conducted on an extract produced by Schwabe of Germany and distributed in the U.S. by Nature's Way (Ginkgold) and Warner-Lambert (the Quanterra line). The best-studied version of St. John's wort, which seems to work for mild to moderate depression, is Kira, produced by Lichtwer...
...many days calling St. John's wort "a gentle remedy" and "a rival to Prozac." Pills and potions containing extracts of hypericum are selling briskly in supermarkets and health-store chains from New York to California. "We are stunned and pleased," says Karl-Heinz Siewert, managing director of Lichtwer Pharma, a Berlin-based company that markets hypericum under the brands Kira and Jarsin...
...Germany, where Jarsin, not Prozac, is the No. 1 antidepressant. This isn't as surprising as it may sound. German physicians are far more willing than their American counterparts to recommend herbal medications to patients. And a string of studies by German scientists, many of them sponsored by Lichtwer, have built a tantalizing if tentative case for hypericum's effectiveness as a treatment for mild and moderate depression. The result: so many German psychiatrists and general practitioners now recommend hypericum preparations that sales have soared from $23 million in 1994 to $66 million last year...
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