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Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 25-39 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1076167502238383

Women and Depression: A Phytotherapist’s Approach

Aviva Romm

AHG, CPM, 1931 Gaddis Rd., Canton, GA 30115

Depression, anxiety, and similar disorders are the most commonly encountered women’s health problems in Western countries with women experiencing higher rates of depression than men. Alternative and conventional medical practitioners are consulted for the treatment of mild to moderate and even severe depression perhaps more than any other mood and affective disorder, mood disorders being the primary emotional imbalance encountered in clinical herbal practice. The medical definition of depression provides a narrow parameter against which a wide range of human sadness and grief is measured and categorized. This unfortunately may lead to the inappropriate labeling, medicating, and potential stigmatization of many who appear to fit the diagnosis of depression and the marginalization and exclusion from diagnosis of those who do not necessarily fit neatly into this category, yet who truly suffer from this malady of emotion. The causes of depression are multifactorial. A truly comprehensive holistic approach must consider physical pathologicetiologies (e. g., endocrinologicdysregulation) as well as social, emotional, and psychological factors ranging from availability of support networks to issues of selfesteem, gender issues faced by women in contemporary times, socioeconomic factors, as well as diet, nutrition, and exercise levels. This article addresses many of these multifactorial issues, providing the reader with both evidence-based and traditional information on the use of complementary and herbal the rapeutic approaches to depression in women.


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