Hello, this is my first post. I am inquiring about the use of St John's Wort in place of other anti depres. medications. I would like to know if anyone on the board has had any success or failure going from traditional meds.
I would be interested to know how the transition was and if you felt relief
Thank you
ncgirl
Check out the alternative section for things like this. I wouldn't keep your hopes up though every single clinical test shows that st. John's wort is about as good as tap water at helping depression. It's a folk rememdy that's all folk and no remedy sadly.
I don't know about using St. Johns after having used other anti-deppresants. However, once upon a time, I was married to a not so nice guy, and very, very depressed. I was concerned, that if I went to a doctor, and told them how depressed I was, I'd have my children removed from my custody. I don't know why I thought like this, but thats where my level of confidence and self esteem were. I read about natural remedies, and decided on a course of St. Johns and Ginseng. I took this combination for a little over a year. My home life did not improve, but my outlook improved significantly, enough so that I eventually removed myself and my kids from the situation. I suppose it could have been psychosomatic, but I don't think so, I honestly think that St. Johns works. Just my $.02 Didn't work for me, but, like prescriptions, what works for one,may not work for another.