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Title: Helpful information on St. John's wort & depression
Review: While trying to decide whether and how to use St. John's wort, I read three books on it and flipped through some others, and I liked this book the best. I appreciated that, although Dr. Cass seems to lean toward "alternative" treatments for depression--including St. John's wort and large doses of vitamins and minerals--she is not ideologically opposed to "conventional" antidepressants, which she also uses in her clinical practice, and so she is able to offer some helpful comments on the relative merits and appropriate roles of St. John's wort and synthetic antidepressants. The book includes chapters on what depression is, what St. John's wort is, how to use St. John's wort, the evidence for its efficacy, synthetic antidepressants, nutrition, and other elements of a "depression-free lifestyle."(Two other recommendations on depression: Richard O'Connor's "Undoing Depression" and John and Andrea Nelson's "Sacred Sorrows.")
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