What homeopathic remedies can be used for treating depression?
I can’t recommend homeopahtic remedies, but here’s a thought for food! Try reading Patrick Holford’s “Low GI diet” – blood sugar imbalances can cause havoc with your body and symptoms include depression, mood swings, tiredness, drowsiness after eating, cravings for sweet foods, headaches, heart palpitations, anxiety, irritability, agrressive outbursts, crying spells, excessive sweating, dizziness and trembling. For depression, you could try Byron Katie’s “The Work” – I found this fantastic – I cant’ recommend it highly enough! It is a great self-dialogue to help you work through anything that is bothering you. She in on youtube or on her website. If you get panic attacks, try the free emails from the panicaway website – these are very helpful.
St. John’s wort is not a homeopathic remedy. It’s just an herbal drug (and not a very good one, really…) I’m not sure what the literature has to say about how well 5htp works. I’d ask your GP if he/she knows if there’s enough evidence of it’s efficacy and safety before you take it. At least in America if a substance is marketed as a supplement and makes no specific medical claims it is unregulated and doesn’t have to pass safety tests. Kava Kava is a great example of this. If Kava were a drug market by Pfizer and the whole liver toxicity thing got out, there’d be an uproar among all the alt med proponents, but you still get them recommending it even though it is clearly unsafe. Homeopathy has a zero success track record when submitted to tightly controlled studies. Positive effects are always because of lack of proper blinding, small sample size, and just basically sloppy experimental design. When these things are compensated for the effect that was in the sloppy trial goes away. Not
