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Thousands, if not millions, of people in India and increasingly across the world take Indian ginseng aka ashwagandha for anxiety and other psyche problems. My w
by macleginn 3y ago
Thousands, if not millions, of people in India and increasingly across the world take Indian ginseng aka ashwagandha for anxiety and other psyche problems. My wife ate several kilos of the stuff during her BSc programme; it helped her with exams and general stress. At some point I was very anxious for a perfectly valid exogenous reason, and she recommended I take it. Three pills in (recommended daily dose, taken over the whole day), my liver briefly shut down, and I spend a week in hospital, recovering and educating doctors about five or six published cases of this phenomenon we found on PubMed. Later I found many more in Amazon reviews. Ashwagandha is world-wide legal, over-the-counter food supplement. But you’ve been warned.
- x86x87 3y agoLol. Tylenol is over the counter and the wrong dose can literary kill your liver. Do you have links to those studies? I'm curious. I've tried Ashwagandha and stopped as it seemed to make me more anxious but YMMV.
- tptacek 3y agoBleach will kill you, too. But unlike bleach, Tylenol is carefully regulated as a medication; in particular, it's packaged at precise dosages, with high quality control standards.
- x86x87 3y agoAre you saying bleach is not carefully regulated? My point was that we are commonly using medication that can have devastating effects - and the precise dosages do not account for the imprecise body weight and sensitivity to the substance of the person taking it.
- macleginn 3y agoA recent study with ample references: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/3921 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/3921
- Trasmatta 3y agoAshwaganda is known to cause anhedonia as well. It’s really helpful for a lot of people, but IMO should only be used occasionally.