Posted by bleauberry on August 20, 2009, at 17:48:23
In reply to Sam-e or other natural support for anger?, posted by Sienna7 on August 20, 2009, at 13:49:55
SAM-e is usually stimulative and has a fairly decent chance of making anger issues worse. Agitation, anxiety, and insomnia are fairly common side effects when starting it or taking too much.
For quick calming, 5htp would be a good first try. I am totally convinced the doses they sell are much too high. Someone should empty out the capsules and start with 5mg, work upward by 5mg as tolerated to find their best dose. 5htp is generally calming and serene. But as happens sometimes with serotonin antidepressants, it can in a minority of people have the opposite effect of irritation. Not likely, but it happens.
SJW can be a bit stimulating the first few days, especially if started at regular doses, but within a couple weeks it is generally very calming. Brands vary so much it is trial and error. If someone tried one or two different brands of SJW and didn't have a good experience, they still really haven't given SJW a fair try. The brands are that much different. At a SJW forum there are people that didn't do well on 3 or 4 different brands and then stumbled onto some other brand that worked great. Sometimes that other magic brand was a researched brand and sometimes it was an el cheapo from the local WalMart or RiteAid or Whole Foods. Everyone responds different.
For really fast calming, carry a tincture of Passionflower and/or Skullcap with you. A few drops of those should smooth things out. Natural dietary things would include magnesium supplementation, and gaba/glycine combination.
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