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echo: altmed
to: SUE ALEXANDER
from: MEG UMANS
date: 1997-10-17 07:50:00
subject: St. John`s Wort

-> SA>MP> The three-year study will involve 336 patients with major
-> SA>MP> depression, of  whom one-third will receive a 900 milligram
-> (mg) SA>MP> daily dose of St.  John's wort, one-third will receive a
-> placebo, SA>MP> and one-third will  receive a selective serotonin
-> reuptake SA>MP> inhibitor.
->    I was actually trying to figure out if they were really trying to
-> test it
-> or setting it up for failure.  From your answer, I presume you can't
-> help me...oh, well.
Sounds like a setup to me, Sue.  Note that the people in the trial are
people with major depression.  St. John's Wort has been demonstrated
elsewhere to work for people with minor depression.
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