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Depression is one of the diseases more representative of the actual times. In Spain approximately 1,600,000 people are affected by depression, and according to the Health World Organitation, between 5% and 10% of new cases appear every day in the world.
Some of the more significant symptoms are: apathy, sadness, lack of personnal care, lack of concentration, feeling of uselessness, fatigue, lack of appetite, insomnia, decrease in activity.
Despite what people believe, depression is not a modern disease. Already , in the Renaissance André du Laurens, doctor of Henry IV, wrote a whole book about this pathology.
What is true is that the actual life style, considerably increase its incidence in our society, to which media communication contribute making possible to identify the depression and to give the patient the freedom of being manifested.
Scientifically, has been demonstrated the existence of a decisive biological factor in depression: a deficit in the chemical neurotransmission between neurons (cells of the nervous system). This deficiency affects the neurotransmissors serotonin, mainly, and nor-adrenalin, whose role is to facilitate the communication between the neurones.
Whenever it is not a severe depression, in which case it is required medical treatment, fitotherapy it is an important alternative way to treat mild to severe depression.
There is a plant that health care professionals are trusting more and more, because of its interesting properties: Hypericum or St. John´s Wort, a plant that has been used for centuries to cure wounds.
The use of Hypericum in the treatment of depression has had an enormous success in countries like Germany and the United States of America (and recently in Spain), where Hypericum prescriptions are superior in quantity compared to any other anti-depressive drug prescription.
Hypericum increases nor-adrenalin and serotonin levels making neurotransmission more effective. Thanks to this mechanism of action, Hypericum provides excellent outcomes without side effects.
You can find among Bio3 Products, this biological preparation very beneficial for mild to moderate depression states: |
