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St. John's Wort - Now You See It, Now You Don't

"The use of herbal preparations and supplements has been growing worldwide with over four billion $ a year spent on alternative medicines in the U.S....

"OBJECTIVE: To use a more specific and sensitive method to accurately determine the total Hypericin's] 'active ingredients] that are found in these 'St. John's Wort] products...

"CONCLUSIONS: ...consistency is not apparent between brands and more products have inaccurate label claims. On average, most labels overestimate the hypericin's] content by a factor of almost two. Emphasis added.

In: Canadian J. Clin. Pharmacol., vol. 10, 2003. By: Draves & Walker, Dept. of Pharmacy, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3MS, Canada.

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