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Complementary and alternative medicines

In: Brand Medicine

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  • Patricia Tan

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St John’s wort is a herb commonly used to alleviate mild depression. In addition to depression, it is also said to relieve nerve pain, seasonal affective disorder and panic attacks. With a history and mythology that dates back almost 2000 years, St John’s wort is widely used in Europe. In Germany, where the herb is listed in the German Drug Codex, approved as a medicine in the Commission E monographs and licensed as a standard medicinal tea infusion, doctors write three million prescriptions annually for the herbal remedy; it outsells Prozac by more than ten to one.1

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  • Patricia Tan, 2001. "Complementary and alternative medicines," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Tom Blackett & Rebecca Robins (ed.), Brand Medicine, chapter 0, pages 274-295, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52251-0_18
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230522510_18
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