Evidence-Based Herbal and Nutritional Treatments for Anxiety in Psychiatric Disorders
This book presents the current clinical evidence on the efficacy of herbal and nutritional treatments for anxiety that is experienced in association with psychiatric disorders, and explains how health professionals can apply this knowledge to the benefit
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David Camfield Erica McIntyre Jerome Sarris Editors
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Evidence-Based Herbal and Nutritional Treatments for Anxiety in Psychiatric Disorders
David Camfield • Erica McIntyre Jerome Sarris Editors
Evidence-Based Herbal and Nutritional Treatments for Anxiety in Psychiatric Disorders
Editors David Camfield School of Psychology University of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales Australia
Jerome Sarris Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine The University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia
Erica McIntyre School of Psychology Charles Sturt University Bathurst New South Wales Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-42305-0 ISBN 978-3-319-42307-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42307-4
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Foreword
A common theme today across many media articles about herbal and nutritional treatments is there is no valid evidence for their efficacy, and the risk of harm is high due to potential issues such as adulteration (sometimes deliberately with pharmaceutical drugs), idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity, and herb–drug interactions. While the lack of data may have held true three or four decades ago, even a cursory search of the published literature reveals an accumulating evidence of safety and efficacy for such treatments, sometimes in a complementary role with mainstream pharmaceuticals. For example, there are n
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