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Treating Depression with Herbs

This article aims to help the reader in the rapid identification of natural remedies useful in the treatment of various symptoms, disorders and pathologies. For some of the listed remedies, this utility may not have been confirmed by sufficient experimental tests conducted with a scientific method. Furthermore, any natural remedy presents potential risks and contraindications.

If available, we therefore recommend that you click on the link corresponding to the individual remedy to learn more about the topic. In any case, we remind you of the importance of avoiding self-treatment and to consult your doctor beforehand to ascertain the absence of contraindications and drug interactions.

Depression is defined as any imbalance, more or less serious in defect, of mood.

Depression is not a simple change of mood in the negative sense, but the result of the action of more symptoms that can make the person's behavior change, even considerably. Very often depression is accompanied by insomnia, eating disorders, difficulty in concentration, suicidal and / or self-damaging ideas.

Medicinal plants and supplements useful for depression

Eleutherococcus, oat, Hypericum, Valerian, Passionflower, Chamomile, linden, peppermint, hawthorn, elderberry, mistletoe, hop. See sedative, anxiolytic plants.