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I currently use St John's Wort. I started taking this after my partial historectomy 3yrs ago even thou I still have my ovaries I was haveing mood swings and it corrected this problem. Then afther the first month I ran out and didn't take it for 2 weeks due to lack of money and noticed I was getting moodier as the days went by. When I started taking it again it cured the problem, it was then I took note to the other problems I have. I didn't realise it the first month but I have rumitoid arthritis and I get frequent sinus headaches due to alleries and the St John's Wort made my pain less. Don't get me wrong I know it's not a cure all and don't work for every one but it really helped me a lot. After my findings I recomended this to my older sister she has the same problems as me and also depression. Finally I convinced my sister to try it for one month and stop taking it after that for a week or two, then start taking it again. Within in the first week of restarting she found out it really does work. Since then I have recommended this to other woman who have had a historectomy as well because they refuse hormones because cancer is so severe and even hormones alone increase your risk anyhow they to have found it helps. A friend of mine has severe depression and has tried many different meds, I told her of this and to ask her Dr.. She did and is now taking it along with her current depression meds and has hardly any bad days anymore maybe one a month now as opposed to every other day or so.
When ever I recommend St. John's Wort to others I always tell them to ask there Dr. just incase it could interfer with their current meds.
I used to use St. John's Wort and found it to be very helpful. Like many herbals though they consentration and quality can vary from brand to brand. The brand I was taking was no longer carried at the store i went to and I was unable to find it anywahere else. Other brands have been too pricey. Herbals can also vary from one batch of plants to another. The manufacturer's don';t always check strength so you should investigate the manufacturer's practise when purchasing herbals.
What's astonishing about this study, is that all the children used in the study were given inactive forms of the St. John's Wort herb where the active ingredients had been oxidized and rendered useless! In other words, this clinical trial, which was widely reported in the main stream media with headlines like "St. John's Wort Found Useless!" didn't test the herb's active ingredients at all! It sort of makes you wonder about the agenda of the people running the study, doesn't it? shocking revelations that top psychiatric research Dr. Joseph Biederman secretly took $1.6 million from drug companies while conducting psychotropic drug experiments on children, it has been learned that Dr. Biederman is now one of the key collaborators behind the latest efforts to discredit St. John's Wort. Despicable!
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Could you give some studies or evidence in regards to ADHD and effects of antioxidants, picnogenol and omega 3's. I know there is evidence that shows it works.
drugs are not always the answer but the AMA doesn't seem to want to admit that.