Review: CAM for ADHD
Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are frequently given to children and adolescents for reputed benefits for hyperkinetic and concentration disorders...
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CAM options for treating depression
Emily Matthews, a reader of this blog, provides this overview of depression and complementary treatment options. About 20 million Americans...
Review: CAM for anxiety and related conditions
Researchers at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina tell us, “The number of...
Do we overhype drug-supplement interactions?
Real and hypothetical concerns exist. Dr. Mark Moyad (photo), who is Director of Preventive and Alternative Medicine at the University...
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Review of CAM for behavioral health
Evidence for CAM to treat depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been reviewed by researchers at Louisiana...
Nutritional herbal supplements for treating anxiety
Approximately 6.8 million Americans suffer from generalized anxiety disorder. It’s not surprising then that there’s interest in finding effective natural...
CYP2D6-mediated herb-drug interactions
Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) is a liver enzyme responsible for the metabolism of approximately 30% of all drugs. Researchers at...
St. John’s wort + kava for major depression with anxiety
This is the first study of St. John’s wort + kava to treat major depressive disorder with underlying anxiety, according...
Risk of liver toxicity from kava formulations
Does it matter whether the kava formulation is an aqueous, ethanolic, or acetonic extract? Researchers from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University...
Drug-herbal interaction review
Prof. Ernst reviewed popular herbal medicines. It’s a long list.
Kava and St. John’s wort: Evidence for mood and anxiety disorders
 A broad range of mood disorders were reviewed by researchers at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, in Queensland, Australia.
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Herbals and lead levels in Americans
The relationship between supplements and lead levels in blood has been an ongoing project for researchers in Boston. In this...
Medical residents don’t know dietary supplements
That’s the result from a survey of internal medicine residency programs in the US.
“Aqueous” extracts of kava to treat depression and anxiety
Piper methysticum (kava) has been withdrawn for sale in several countries due to concerns over liver toxicity. The WHO recently...
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Drug-supplement interactions in perspective
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota have reviewed the evidence and report that most interactions are confined to...
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What not to take before surgery
OK, you’re scheduled for surgery, and you take herbals. Does your surgeon know what you take? Be smart. If you...
Risk factors for liver toxicity from kava
Researchers from Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main in Germany took a detailed look at reports of liver toxicity associated with taking kava. They...
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The role of CAM to treat anxiety and depression
Here’s a review of the evidence by researchers at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
A Bent view of herbals
Dr. Stephen Bent is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California,...
Using Sprinkles to reduce anemia in children
Sprinkles is a nutritional supplement containing iron, zinc, vitamin A, folic acid, and vitamin C. Researchers from Cornell University in...