It's Official! BMA approve medicinal use of St John's Wort for mild and winter depression.
Known and used in Europe for centuries by herbal practitioners, licenced in Germany and used as an official substitute for Prozac, no known long term side effects.
Get it from any country lane, or better still, buy it in handy tablets.
You'll be happy you did!
WORRIED about "side effects"? Don't be, there are none known. There
are some "interactions" with drugs prescribed for certain serious conditions.
This means that SJW will reduce the efficacy of these drugs in some cases.
As always you are responsible for your own alternative treatment. If you
are taking prescribed medication CONSULT your DOCTOR before starting or stopping
a course of SJW. A recent circular to NHS practitioners includes
advice to patients which we reproduce
here.
Coping effectively with life's ups and downs is an important part of our everyday emotional well-being. Everyday events and even, for example, changes in the weather, can influence our feelings and each of us responds in our own way to these altered circumstances. In continental Europe, many believe that an extract of the popular flowering plant Hypericum perforatum L. (known as St .John's Wort in Europe) could help.
Now Lichtwer Pharma, a company committed to putting science behind nature, have created a top quality standardised tablet from that plant. This is Kira, the Sunshine Supplement.
Much recent research has indicated that, as part of a healthy lifestyle, Kira could help you look on the bright side, because Kira could help you to maintain a healthy emotional balance.
Just one of the fine supplements available
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. . .an extract of hypericum, or St.John's Wort, appeared on the market. A number of well regulated German trials had found that it was as effective in combating mild depression as Prozac. The German company Lichtwer Pharma launched hypericum by blitzing journalists with translations of the German studies and it worked. Over-the-counter sales of Kira, as they called it, have taken off not only here but in the States. Now Lichtwer is doing the same thing with Gingko biloba, which improves blood flow to the brain and helps with memory. Crucial to the success of this German invasion has been their bridging of the gulf that has long separated herbalists and conventional medics.
Jerome Burne
December 10th 1997
