Posted by blueberry1 on December 15, 2006, at 4:30:57
In reply to Rhodiola- howlong to help?, posted by Jimmyboy on December 14, 2006, at 8:41:32
I'm not sure how long rhodiola will take to work, if it will work for everyone, or what the side effects will be. It seems to vary a lot from person to person.
It can be combined with st johns wort. You would likely need less of a dose of sjw, like maybe 150mg twice or three times a day.
Though rhodiola is a stress reducer with longterm use, it can induce stress in the beginning by being too stimulating for some people. I tried it for a few days and I got real good energy and a decent mood boost for half the day, followed by a fatigue type crash the second half of the day. It was too short of a trial to give it time, but the first few days were rough. I was also withdrawing from st johns wort and zyprexa at the same time and ended up in the emergency room with my first ever full blown panic attack. Was it the rhodiola or was it the withdrawals or a combination of them all? Don.t know.
For people who do have a hard time with over stimulation or insomnia during early treatment with rhodiola, it might be best to break tablets or dump some powder out of capsules to get 25mg twice a day and slowly increase as tolerated.
I think to give it a real good trial it needs at least 4 weeks. There isn't enough scientific data on rhodiola though, so that is just opinion.
Other herbs to consider for cognitive enhancing are panax ginseng or ginkgo biloba. I'm not an expert on herbs or anything, but from reading people who do specialize in them it seems that combinations are usually used, where you have your main ingredient backed up by small doses of two or three or more other things.
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