September 3, 2007 11:37 - Three Different Dosage Of St. John's Wort Tested For Depression
More than 25 double blind clinincal research trials have affirmed again and again the efficacy of St. John's Wort or Hypericum perforatum for the treatment of mild to moderate depression. In one Swiss study, researchers tried to determine the optimum dosage of hypericin. So they tried different concentrations in 348 patients in the multicenter research project. This study used the standard dosage of 0.33 mg hypericin per day and two other dosage variants - higher and lower dosage.
Volunteers for the study were recruited from 38 centers in Germany and Switzerland. Participants were divided into three groups based on dosage they are taking - 0.33 mg per day, 0.17 mg per day and 1.0 mg per day. Researchers measured improvement using the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD-17), self-assessments from patients (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), and physician assessments (Clinical Global Impression Scale).
Physicians rated the efficacy of SJW "moderate to good" in roughly 70 percent of cases for all of the groups. Self-assessments by patients supported these results. Seventy-four patients reported a total of 82 mild side effects during the course of the study; however, only seven were causally linked to SJW. The most common complaints were nausea, headache, and dizziness, and there was no difference in the overall incidence between groups. There were 88 dropouts from the study due to lack of compliance, medical reasons, or other causes.
The overall response rate in this study was 62 to 68 percent, which is higher than the average 55 percent response rate the authors found in the 13 placebo-controlled studies they analyzed for their study. The lack of a dose-response effect in this trial with SJW standardized for hypericin content may provide support for the theory that hypericin is not the main active constituent for the relief of mild-to-moderate depression. - Krista Morien, HRF
[Lenoir S, Degenring FH, Saller R. A double-blind randomised trial to investigate three different concentrations of a standardised fresh plant extract obtained from the shoot tips of Hypericum perforatum L. Phytomedicine 1999; 6(3): 141-146.]
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September 3, 2007 11:48 - News Related With Herbal Remedies and Supplements Industry
Consumer group urges ban on functional foods
In a letter to the FDA, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) called for a ban on the sale of 75 beverages, cereals, and snack foods containing herbs. CSPI believes that consumers are being mislead by health claims on the products' labels. The group alleges that functional foods like Snapple and Arizona Teas are unsafe and "spiked" with "illegal" ingredients. FDA promised to "carefully evaluate" CSPI's concerns. ABC News, July 18; Natural Business Journal, August 2000.
Supplement makers settle FTC suit
Enfamol Nutraceuticals Inc., maker of Efalex and Efalex Focus, and J&R Research, maker of Pycnogenol, settled a suit with the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing they would no longer advertise these supplements as a treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The companies were not required to pay fines. FTC officials stated they are particularly concerned about dietary supplements with unproven claims being marketed for children. Reuters, May 11, 2000.
Frontier Natural Products Co-op to study Echinacea cultivation
Through a grant from the Organic Farming Research Foundation, Frontier Organic Research Farm will investigate whether Echinacea grown in plots with native prairie medicinals and grasses is more resistant to aster yellows disease than Echinacea grown in monoculture. The farmers also will assess whether inter-planting improves productivity, weed control, and beneficial insect counts. Frontier Press Release, May 30, 2000
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September 12, 2007 23:13 - Advertising Of Unhealthy Food And Child Obesity
Advertising Of Unhealthy Food And Child Obesity:
Children Food and Beverage Initiative announced that 11 US corporations have agreed not to advertise unhealthy food to children. Hershey and Coco Cola pledged that they won't use children below 12 years in their advertisement.
We share the results of one poll that had been done for the impact of this kind of initiative of not using children in advertisement of unhealthy food. The result of poll is - 7% people agreed that it will reduce the child obesity greatly; 56% maintained that it will stop child obesity moderately, 35% voted that it will have no effect on child obesity, 5% voted that it will eventually increase child obesity.
It is good on the part of corporations to take such an initiative. But it is the greater responsibility of parents and all of us to show children the non-beneficial effect of unhealthy food - by teaching and by EXAMPLE. Only then the impact will be lasting. If we empty the bottle of soft beverage before children and tell him that it is unhealthy, no child will buy into this fact. We, as parents and responsible members of society need to take such healthy enhancing initiatives ourselves.
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September 12, 2007 23:16 - Natural Herbal Remedies, Dietary And Nutritional Supplements Arrest And Reverse Heart Disease
Dietary And Nutritional Supplements Arrest And Reverse Heart Disease
The facts that diet and nutritional supplements such as many natural herbal remedies can effectively arrest the progression of heart disorders and eventually reverse them. This fact has been validated innumerable times in the practices of all qualified herbalists and in the lives of many many persons.
Dr Dean Ornish had been one such pioneer to validate this fact based on scientific medical study. Now Dr Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD shares his story, "In my 21-year Cleveland Clinic nutritional study, I (Read, natural herbal remedies or I found that natural herbal remedies) arrested and reversed advanced coronary artery disease in patients who had already undergone bypasses and angioplasties; some had even been told by their cardiologist that they had less than a year to live."
This study builds from epidemiological evidence in plant-based cultures, such as rural China, the Papua Highlanders, central Africa, and the Tarahumara Indians, where the inhabitants are virtually free of coronary disease.
My recent book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, updates the study beyond 21 years, making it the longest of its type. Those patients told by expert cardiologists 20 years ago that they had less than a year to live who are alive and well in 2007 are a particularly compelling story.
Dear Friends, this is all normal and natural, nothing miraculous healing or cure. Silently natural herbal remedies like Terminalia arjuna, Guggul and several other herbal remedies are producing the magic in the lives of persons who are using them.
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