YOU GOT TO LOVE HERBS !! I love when an article gets published of using herbs instead of using conventional drugs. Some of the conventional psychiatric drugs as benzodiazepines. This class of medication has addiction potential.
In HerbalGram an article was published “Effect of the fixed combination of valerian, lemon balm, passionflower, and butterbur extracts (Ze 185) on the prescription pattern of benzodiazepines in hospitalized psychiatric patients “ It was published in Phytother Res. June 2020;34(6):1436–1445. doi: 10.1002/ptr.6618.
I think studies like this are needed. I urge you to read this study .
Limitations of this study include: the different treatment durations and multiple concomitant drugs used by some of the patients; the inclusion of patient data from only one clinic; slightly different characteristics of the cases and controls at baseline; the lack of detailed adverse effect monitoring; and the possible confounding bias due to the patients’ and/or physicians’ preferences for the use of benzodiazepines or herbal drugs that could have influenced the prescription patterns.
The authors conclude that “both treatment modalities had a comparable clinical effectiveness but with significantly [fewer] prescriptions of benzodiazepines in the Ze 185 group.” However, because of the increased use of sedatives and hypnotics in the Ze 185 group, these effects should be further investigated in randomized, controlled clinical trials.
This does NOT mean that herbs do not work for anxiety. I have effectively used herbs for anxiety and eliminated the use of drugs. I use the nervine herbs in tinctures, and teas for this purpose.
Until tomorrow…