Posted by bleauberry on January 15, 2014, at 6:02:32
In reply to Rhodiola rosea, posted by vbs on January 3, 2014, at 2:10:10
Since this post is a couple weeks old I guess I am a bit late to the party.
I just wanted to say, in my experience, rhodiola is capable of dealing with just about any psychiatric symptom or condition. That is because, apart from any of its mechanisms which are directly brain related, it has multiple other mechanisms all of which are very healthy things and very therapeutic things for a wide variety of issues that could go wrong in the human body. Primarily anything impacted by physical or mental stress.
That said, rhodiola warrants care. It is a tricky herb. It takes on different behaviors at different doses. Usually more stimulating at lower doses, more calming at higher doses, but sometimes that is reversed depending on the person; and, any immediate effects felt in the first day or few days, is not the real effect it is going to display a month or two down the road. Rhodiola takes time. When starting it, side effects in the overstimulated category can happen. They are short lived and easy to manage with dose adjustments. The problem is, by that time, most people have already bailed out of it, got scared, second thoughts, gave up. And in doing so missed out on one of the best plant medicines in the whole world.
So yeah, I think it has a chance of working for you, but it needs caution, it needs time, and it needs experimentation on dosing. And if all goes wrong and it turns out to be clearly not for you, well, it has to be considered that might happen.
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