[escepticos] Flor de depresión

[Claudio Andrés Uribe <uribe_claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Según un estudio de Centro para el Progreso de la Salud parece que la
plantita de San Juan no sirve para curar la depresión:
      
   ST. JOHN?S WORT ONLY MINIMALLY EFFECTIVE IN RELIEVING MAJOR DEPRESSION,
REVIEW CONFIRMS 
      
      St. John?s Wort, the herbal medicinal long thought to relieve symptoms
of depression, provides only minor benefits in patients with the most acute
depression and perhaps no benefit for those with chronic depression.
      
      The updated review of 37 trials, involving 4,925 patients, reaffirms
earlier findings that St. John?s Wort:
      --Reduces symptoms of mild-to-moderate depression among adults in a
manner similar to antidepressant drugs;
      --Causes fewer side effects than some of the older antidepressants on
the market; and
      --Causes slightly fewer side effects compared with selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, the class of antidepressants most recently
developed.
      
      Sigue en:
   http://www.hbns.org/news/stjohns05-16-05.cfm
   
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   Claudio Andrés Uribe
   Buenos Aires, Argentina