Are there any over the counter medicine for depression?!
Question:
Are there any over the counter medicine for depression?
What kind of medicine and where can i buy it? Not serious depression just once in a while feeling really low, and easily upset . What can i take to just make me happier and more easy going and not get upset about everything so easily?
Answers:
St. Johns Wort (availible at grocery stores), Kanna (availible only at herbal smoke or head shops for some weird reason), l-tryptophan(availible at vitamine stores), kava kava root (for anxiety realated depression availible in pharmacy area of grocery store as a tea)
Actually, I have read some scientific literature on Kannas active ingredient mesembrine. It was tested via radioactively labeled mesembrine on a cloned rats serritonin receptor to be by far the "most potent SSRI chemical ever found in science" SSRIs are chemicals that improve serritonin levels like prozac or zoloft. Its antidepressent activity was tested via the forced swim test in rats and caused rats that were intentionaly put into a psychological state of "learned heplessness" to prolong their swimming endurence or attempt escape in the water tank. This indicates that the drug has antidepressent activity as the rats suddenly swim longer because of their increased confidence in their ability to swim and survive. The only steps needed now for mesembrine to gain acceptance into mainstream pharmacy is to find a way to synthesis or extract it without its other natural or environmental impurities and then go into human phase test trials. So yes Kanna is an antidepressent that is more potent then any currently used medicen on the market.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=suohaaa...
http://herbalafrica.co.za/herbskanna.htm...