Author: Lamara Lvova, Ph.D. biol. Sciences
On the Ukrainian pharmaceutical market, one of the newest and unique products based on St. John’s wort is STRESSOFIT from World Medicine, which contains a dry extract of hypericum wort flowers 300 mg, which corresponds to 900 mcg of hypericin.
In addition, STRESSOFIT is the only remedy on the domestic market, which includes components of motherwort and peony that potentiate the action of hypericum wort: 100 mg dry extract of stems and leaves of motherwort, which corresponds to 5% stahydrine, and 100 mg dry extract of peony lactiflora roots, which corresponds to 20% pionoflorin.
In the herbal remedy STRESSOFIT, motherwort extract causes sedative, antispasmodic, anticonvulsant, antianginal and hypotensive effects, and also has a protective effect in cerebral ischemia.
Plant components of peony, primarily glycosides of salicin and methyl salicylate, in the composition of STRESSOFIT also exhibit various actions: sedative, anticonvulsant, membrane stabilizing, antioxidant, antihypoxic. In addition, it should be noted that the sedative effect of peony extract is associated with stimulation of the body’s production of endorphins, which cause a feeling of happiness.
Given the above, STRESSOFIT can be recommended for the following conditions:
- psycho-vegetative disorders (depressed mood, apathy), neurotic reactions;
- depression of mild and moderate severity, accompanied by a sense of fear, anxiety, insomnia;
- asthenic conditions: exhaustion, impotence;
- constant nervous tension;
- the components of the remedy also contribute to improving mood, physical and mental performance and improving sleep.
STRESSOFIT is available in a convenient dosage form – hard capsules. Recommended for adults and children over 12 years old: 1 capsule a day before bedtime with plenty of water.
As features that are a contraindication to the use of the drug, are individual sensitivity to the individual components of the drug, pregnancy, breastfeeding, peptic ulcer of the stomach and 12 duodenal ulcer, erosive gastritis in the acute stage.