Popular Drugs May Help Only Severe Depression
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/health/views/06depress.html
Whoever said drinking lavender destroys kidneys? People have been using lavender as a relaxant for centuries. But if it's true, I'd like to see the data. Need to know these things. As for inositol, I've been trying it and can't say it's helped me any, but there was a series of studies that got good results with very large doses of inositol. I haven't gotten up to those doses yet. Try to find the studies by googling them. As to kava, there were five people who suffered sever liver damage and were taking kava. One was an Australian aborigine, I think, who was drinking buckets of it every day, so we have to kind of discount that one -- no one recommends drinking buckets of it. The other four were all using standardized kava, not a regular tincture or herbal tea or the traditional drink used in Vanatu. But all four were also former drug and alcohol abusers and were on several pharmaceuticals, and naturally FDA only blamed the kava. Most companies did stop selling it at the urging of the FDA, but some intrepid herbalists still sell it and you don't see a whole lot of cases popping up. If I had liver disease, I'd avoid it, and if I found a good alternative, I'd avoid it, but only out of caution. Virtually every pharmaceutical product potentially causes liver disease, so if anyone came up with financing to do all the animal testing FDA requires to approve a medication, kava would certainly pass the cost/benefit analysis FDA uses. But anything can be toxic to someone -- wheat is toxic to people with ciliac disease. So nothing is perfectly safe, and should be used with that in mind.
What about inosital?? I just read it really helps with anxiety, OCD, panic disorders. as well as insomnia?? Any use it with good results??
Paxil,
Doesn't kava have a bad reputation for possible liver damage??
I like l-theanine, passion flower, and small amount 5 HTP ( makes me drowsy) but great for night time.
There u go, talk of the devil and he shall surely appear...lol
It isn't that chamomile wouldn't be allowed, it would just have to be taken apart in time from the remedies. (Wanted to put this on the site; i've already pm'd the poster). For anyone else interested, what I said was I don't know what honey balm is, but that it might mean lemon balm, which is a relaxant (as well as an anti-viral). Neither is a strong essential oil, so both should be okay, but taken an hour or two apart from taking the remedies. Same with eating. And I suggested, as falldown did, that valerian might be better, but I'd go with passionflower and hops, and the best would be kava, but it tastes horrible. Yuck. But I also want to add that the all-around treatment would involve a lot of herbs, amino acids, diet, meditation, and exercise if one wasn't taking the pure homeopathic route, to work on the whole body. Homeopathy is a completely different modality.
you can use valerian root in the therapy of mild anxiety or stress
Hiya, a good person to message about this would be a guy on the anxiety forum called Paxiled, he is on my friends list if you go on there and he will be about to tell you everything you need to know about alternative med's do's and don'ts....
Hope this helps...