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Coming as it did amid reports that federal regulators are about to call for tighter controls on dietary supplements, including the memory pill Ginkgo biloba (which has been found to cause excessive bleeding and, in rare cases, stroke), the study's conclusions touched a raw nerve among those who see herbal medicine as a gentler, more natural route to healing. The nonprofit American Botanical Council issued a stinging press release criticizing the research as inconclusive, and the supplement industry's Council for Responsible Nutrition said there was nothing in the study that showed St. John's wort wouldn't work...
...most obese. Yoga, typically, is practiced by the fit. Exercise, the care and feeding of body and possibly mind, is their second career. The folks in urgent need of yoga are the ones who are at the fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian than tandoori chicken...
...rapidly effective treatment is a one-minute hypnotic relaxation procedure taught by a therapist trained in clinical hypnosis. A person standing in line at a supermarket, about to be overcome by panic, can use this method in less time than it would take to reach for and swallow a pill. Most people can be trained in one or two sessions. And there are no side effects other than the feeling of mastery. MARIAN K. SHAPIRO Lexington, Mass...
...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...
...most obese. Yoga, typically, is practiced by the fit. Exercise, the care and feeding of body and possibly mind, is their second career. The folks in urgent need of yoga are the ones who are at the fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian than tandoori chicken...