A of the present day clinical stud...

A of the present day clinical study shows that a proprietary standardized extract of St John's wort was as effective as a for the use of all prescription antidepressant in reducing the symptoms of depression. The inferences were published February 11, 2005 in the British Medical Journal.

According to the double-blind trial, patients who took 900 mg by day of a St. John's wort extract had as plenteous benefit as the pharmaceutical physic Paxil. The herb was also better tolerated by dint of patients. The results of this trial are consistent with a larger, previously published trial in France.

An unrelated reflection from the National Institute of Mental Health--a constituent of the National Institutes of Health--has lay the foundation of that dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) supplementation may be an effective treatment of midlife attack of minor and major depression. The research follows were published in the February 2005 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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