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- From: bx461@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leo J. Mauler)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Valerian root...a legit. sedative?
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 10:24:36 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos), writes:
- >At some pharmacies and many health food stores one can buy
- >Valerian root extract. This product is sold as a anxiolytic,
- >sedative and hypnotic. I have done a small lit. search
- >(although the journals I have yet to actually read, hard to
- >get hold of).
- >
- >The lit. serach tells me that some controlled research is
- >being done on this "herbal" remedy. Is anyone familiar with
- >it? What info. can you provide?
- >
- >Steven Zikopoulos
-
- One thing I do know is that it is used a lot in the former
- U.S.S.R. A brief mention of a trial of a Russian "Jeffrey
- Dahlmer", included the fact that when some of the evidence
- about who got killed was read aloud at the trial, "the air
- became thick with the smell of valerian drops."
-
- A check with former U.S.S.R sources should probably turn up
- something, as would talking with residents (surely some
- people over there have Net access?).
-
- --
- Never do this at home. Look how easily it killed this sig.
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