St. John's Wort Plant as Effective as Prozac

A study at the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich has compared the benefits of St. John's Wort to Prozac and found that the benefits to the herbal supplement were similar to the prescription drug Prozac.

Overall, the St John's Wort extracts tested in the trials were superior to placebo, similarly effective as standard anti-depressants, and had fewer side effects than standard anti-depressants

A separate study has found St John's Wort, available in countless health shops, is the only alternative medicine proven to have an effect.

Others, including ginseng, liquid tonic, cat's claw, gingko biloba and royal jelly, had no firm base in evidence and could be dangerous when taken with other drugs, according to the study by St James' University Hospital in Leeds.

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