Word: valerian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than 10% a year. Shoppers can stock up not only at incense-scented tofu-and-sprouts shops but also at corner pharmacies and supermarkets, and from mail-order houses, websites and Amway distributors who rattle their pillboxes door to door. Preparations made from herbs--from aloe for regularity to valerian for restful sleep--are the hottest of all, with some 60 million Americans now swallowing doses regularly. And for those who crave a tastier fix, there are new so-called functional foods--concoctions such as fruit juice laced with ginseng, or corn chips with kava, the one claiming to perk...