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| intervals throughout the day. The patient's experience is the guiding principle here. Always treat the human being and not the theory about the disease. |
| A possible prescription for acute stress associated with indigestion and palpitations: |
| Skullcap 2 parts |
| Valerian 2 parts |
| Motherwort 1 part |
| Chamomile 1 part |
| Mugwort 1 part |
| Take 1 tsp of tincture as needed. |
| The motherwort supports relaxation but also has a specific calming impact on palpitations. |
| Depression |
| Depression is a state of mind familiar to almost everyone, but this very familiarity becomes problematic when approaching clinical depressive states. In ordinary usage the word refers to a mood state that in medicine is called dysthemia, as contrasted with the normal state of euthymia and the opposite state of elation. In psychiatric usage, disorders of mood are called affective disorders; depression can be such a disease in itself or a symptom of another mental disorder. Normal human responses to some situations may also include transient depressions. |
| Major depression occurs in 10 percent to 20 percent of the world's population in the course of a lifetime. Women are more often affected than men, by a two-to-one ratio, and they seem to be at particular risk in the period prior to menstruation or following childbirth. Relatives of patients with major depression also seem to be at some higher risk of becoming depressed, and about 2 percent of the population may have a chronic disorder known as a depressive personality. |
| Depression is defined by a standard set of symptoms |
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