Articles on How to Help Relieve Anxiety, Reduce Depression and Enjoy A Good Night's Sleep
In addition to changes in diet and lifestyle, there are a number of natural remedies that are not only safer and better tolerated than their pharmaceutical cousins, but in many cases, they are equal or better in their ability to lift the burden of depression, relieve anxiety and promote better sleep.
Depression
News Item: St. John's Wort Effectively Supports Mental Health, Study Shows
A recent study indicates that St. Johns Wort is as effective or more effective than the drug Zoloft for mild to moderate depression and causes fewer side effects than the prescription drug. Whats more, a current review of this herb concluded that it is equally as effective as pharmaceutical antidepressants in treating depression.
News Item: St. John’s Wort Effective in Depression
A new review has concluded that St. John’s wort is effective in reducing symptoms of major depression.
Lithium Orotate: The Mood-Enhancing Mineral
Lithium orotate is a simple mineral available as a safe nutritional preparation that has significant effects on conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and Seasonal Affective Disorder.
DHA May Benefit Heart Disease Related Depression - Lithium and Fish Oils Can Boost DHA LevelsThe intake of fatty acids such as DHA can influence both our cardiovascular and nervous systems
Depression: Antidepressant Side Effects Hinder Long-Term Treatment – A Review of Side Effects and Alternative Therapies
A revolutionary new form of natural remedies has been formulated for depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders, sleep disturbances and other affective disorders. These remedies consist of two different chronobiotic complexes designed to be used together to balance and restore normal circadian hormonal rhythms: Syncholamine and Positrol.
5-HTP (5-Hydroxytryptophan) vs. Prozac (SSRIs)
The many successful published studies using 5-HTP show that 5-HTP, by naturally elevating brain serotonin, can alleviate the serotonin-deficiency syndrome without any help from SSRI drugs.
Supplement Spotlight: 5-HTP
5-HTP, derived from an African plant, can help alleviate not only depression, obesity and insomnia, but a long list of other complaints as well.
L-Tryptophan — Nature's Answer to Prozac
Clinical and anecdotal evidence shows that even 500 mg to 1,500 mg of supplemental tryptophan, taken at bedtime on a regular basis, is frequently sufficient to ease serotonin-deficiency problems.
News Item: Get Happy With Folic Acid
Folic acid might turn out to be an inexpensive and easy way to boost the efficacy of drug treatment for depression.
Drug-Free Help For Depression
Here we examine depression and the most popular non-drug therapies used by health practitioners to treat this debilitating disease.
News Item: Your Mind on Herbs
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health recently reviewed which herbs have an effect on mood, memory, and sleep quality.
Seasonal Affective Disorder — Natural Remedies
There are a number of natural remedies that are not only uniformly safer and better tolerated than their pharmaceutical cousins, but in many cases, they are equal or better in their ability to lift the burden of depression.
Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) — Fighting the Winter Blues
Mild forms of winter depression may be helped by spending more time outdoors and exercising regularly. There are also several effective natural remedies for coping with SAD
Anxiety and Stress
L-Theanine: How a Unique Anxiety Reducer and Mood Enhancer Increases Alpha Waves and Alertness
Known mainly for its calming effects, current areas of ongoing research include using L-theanine as an alternative to Ritalin in children and adults, as a treatment for PMS, in controlling certain conditions of high blood pressure, in sharpening mental acuity and concentration, and as an anti-cancer agent alone and in synergy with other cancer-fighting agents.
Theanine – A New Natural Relaxant
Theanine is an amino acid in grean tea. Theanine has been compared to getting a massage or taking a hot bath. Theanine is different than kava-kava in that it doesn't cause drowsiness. And unlike tranquilizing drugs, it doesn't interfere with the ability to think.
Stress and Anxiety: Natural Support to Calm Anxious Nerves
Combining a number of anti-stress nutrients such as GABA, passion flower, valerian, ashwagandha, and L-theanine can increase levels of calm and well-being without drowsiness
Stress and Cortisol: The Plague of the 21st Century
Modern scientific research, drawing on ancient systems of medicine, has provided us with supplements that can help reduce excess cortisol and its many toxic effects
Emotional Stabilizers: Botanicals For Mood, Mind And Stress
Herbs that help to improve mood and alleviate mental and emotional stress.
BHI Calming Tablets
BHI Calming Tablets work by stimulating the body's own natural defense system. For casual stress, insomnia, nervous irritability, restlessness, depression and hypersensitivity to external irritations, these tablets promote a biological, nontoxic calming and tranquilizing effect, which does not interfere with alertness.
Insomnia
New Formula Promotes Restful Sleep and Daytime Energy
Herbal Sleep is a newly reformulated blend of traditional botanical ingredients clinically proven to calm the nerves, relieve anxiety and promote restful sleep
News Item: Vitamin E Relieves Sleep Disorder
Research shows that Vitamin E may help relieve night cramps and restless legs.
News Item: Ginkgo Biloba May Aid in Sleep of Patients with Depression
New research links ginkgo biloba to sleep and cognitive improvements in a depressed population.
Valerian: The Sleeping Beauty
One of the first supplement herbalists recommend for insomnia is valerian. Additional herbs would be reishi, hops, skullcap, passion flower, and lemon balm.
A Natural Guide To A Full Night's Sleep
Poor nutrition, hurried lifestyles, work and family pressures all create high levels of anxiety and over-stimulation that prevent restful sleep. Fear not, however. There are natural remedies that will avoid the use of habit-forming prescription sleep drugs. Nighttime relaxation can be promoted naturally with soothing herbal teas and other natural supplements designed to promote sleep
