Posted by nolvas on August 3, 2005, at 6:40:59
In reply to Bach's Rescue Remedy, posted by Sarah T. on August 2, 2005, at 23:06:50
I have tried Bach's rescue remedy and it did nothing to help with anxiety.
I was reading a site last night actually and it rates complementary and self help treatments, it states that's bach's flower remedy is not effective at all for treating anxiety. I don't know how independant this site is (i.e does it support pharmaceutical companies) from what I read on there only kava and relaxation and 5-HTP (personally I would take L-Tryptophan) are effective.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/181_07_041004/jor10845_fm.html
I do strongly disagree with some of the information on the site, caffeine absolutely causes me more anxiety and tendency to panic
Kava Kava has never worked for me, I think I realise why now, the usual supplements you buy are just not potent enough. You need at least 70% kavalactones and they need to be around 225mg. The usual supplements only have say 30% and only 75mg of kavalactones with the rest being just powered root. I will be buying from konakavafarm.com as they look to have proper supplements.
Have a look at this site as well
http://www.netriceuticals.com/articles.asp?id=16
There's a couple of supplements on there new to me, Milk Protein Hydrolysate (MPH) sounds very interesting, according to that site it's more effective than Kava Kava and St Johns Wort for treating anxiety as effective as diazepam (valium)
I personally believe Bach Flower Remedy to have a placebo effect in that if you believe it will help then it will. An example is when my ex partner's son was suffering some stress in school. He has Asperger syndrome a high functioning mild autisic spectrum disorder, people such as Isacc Newton, Einstein and Spielberg are reputed to have this disorder, so you can see in terms of cognition there isn't a problem. Anyway my point is his mother gave him some Bach Flower Remedy and said try it it's supposed to help, the person in the shop also reinforced the belief that Bach Flower Remedy would help. So he took it and felt better
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