Word: perforatum
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...folk remedy? You bet. But St. John's wort--or Hypericum perforatum, as scientists call it--is not just another weed. It has attracted a huge following in Europe, and is now catching on in the U.S. According to Dr. Harold Bloomfield, author of Hypericum & Depression (Prelude Press; $7.95), this pretty yellow-flowered plant is nature's own antidepressant--almost as potent as the prescription drug Prozac but without Prozac's troubling side effects. St. John's wort may not work for everyone, acknowledges Bloomfield, a psychiatrist in Del Mar, Calif. "But to those for whom it does work...
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