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mixing herbs with meds

Posted by Cari on June 8, 2000, at 11:35:48

In reply to Re: better alternative to Buspar, posted by pollypop on June 7, 2000, at 21:07:43

Polly,
The only experience I've had in this area is that I've tried Kava, which is supposed to help anxiety, but it didn't do anything. I think that with us who suffer from truly acute anxiety/depression, the herbs are just too weak to make a difference. In Alaska I used to drink Valerian root tea that was freshly grown and sold locally, and that may have helped, but nothing like the Klonopin. I heard that if you take herbal pills like Valerian they won't be as effective because the natural properties are lost when they get refined into pill form. Once I took a bunch of Valerian root pills to see what would happen, but they didn't do a thing. St. Johns Wort never did a thing for me either, and if you have health insurance that covers prescriptions, you'll ending up spending more on St. Johns Wort that your actual meds. I don't think most doctors know much about the herbs, or if they do they don't share info with patients, because herbs are out of their "scientific" realm, but overall I'd say that herbs are very weak compared to meds.


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