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Does St. John s Wort help ADHD?

Posted on June 17, 2008

According to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), St. John s Wort is ineffective in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents. Moreover, hundreds of newspaper articles, Internet postings and TV/radio news reports have parroted these findings, widely sounding the death knell for this particular herbal remedy in ADHD. But a critical look at the research publication in JAMA leads me to conclude that the study actually adds little to our understanding of whether or not St. John s Wort is effective for A...

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adhd , adolescents , child health , children , depression , drug abuse , hyperactivity , mental health , schizophrenia