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[FiveNotions]

http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC1062162/

I drank tons of damiana tea (ordered the herb in bulk) during hard withdrawal....hadn't had it daily in a month or so....I'm going to get back to drinking this stuff daily.....it beats getting addicted to Valium....

Here's some quick info about the tea ...note, it's from a commercial source,
http://www.damianatea.net

[fishinghat]

Interesting. I couldn't find anything about damiana (Turnera diffusa) treating anxiety in the medical journals. But I found several articles on Turnera aphrodisiac being as effective as diazepam. The active ingredient on Turnera aphrodesiacis,  Apigenin, which works on benzo receptors.

 

Research;

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/16635964

http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/15864356

http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC1062162/

 

 

http://www.herbaldb....iolytic-action/

The article here talks about the anti-anxiety properties of damianas in research BUT the research they quote was done on Turnera aphrodesiac not Turnera diffusa (damianas).

[FiveNotions]

Thanks for the clarification, FH.....as always, I'm in awe! I'll read these tomorrow....don't want to get my brain all fired up at this time of night. ;-)