Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/16

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Subject: Re: Hypericum
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:05:28 -0700

At 11:03 AM 10/16/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Prozac - evidently, you don't know so much about this special selective 5-HT
>re-uptake inhibitor Fluoxetine, which is known in the US as "happy pill" and
>still brings a lot of $$ from stupid in-believers. 
>
>Fluoxetine is neglected in Europe's psychiatry, because of it's reduced
>efficacy in several types of depression compared e.g. to the tri-cyclic
>Amitriptilyne. Fluoxetine produces irritation, agitation, vomiting, anxiety
>in 10 to 25 percent of the patients - and killed several persons in the
>combination with other drugs (e.g. MAO inhibitors). 
>
>There are more mild ways to prove your knowledge, Jim.
>
>Alf
>(enjoying, that you're humble know and eat dirt outside)
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>At 08:17 15.10.1997 -0700, you wrote:
>>Obviously those news reports about how Hypericum, a natural herb (St John's
>>Wort), being prescribed and able to cure wholesale mild depression in
>>Europe, is misleading. Alf, I think you need to move up. Any Veterinarian's
>>on the list that can e-mail Alf a prescription for Prozac?
>>
>>Jim
>

I rest my case... over and OUT!

Jim