Posted by nolvas on August 28, 2006, at 17:23:33
In reply to Re: Any kind of herbal thing like xanax?, posted by Declan on August 28, 2006, at 14:15:04
Apart from Opium there's nothing natural that I know of that's as powerful for calming anxiety as benzo drugs such as Xanax.
Kava Kava possibly may work for you if you can get it and find it in a suitably potent form.
Phenibut is powerful but it made me feel sick unfortunately. GHB used to be good but that's open to abuse, and is illegal. It seems anything that works well like Xanax has serious potential for addiction unfortunately. It's an evolutionary thing, it's not advantageous for survival to be in a state of calm all the time, the body has feedback mechanisms that will eventually bypass any long term calming effects from most agents. The brain is wired for addiction (good article about this in New Scientist this week, UK magazine)
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