Herbs for Anxiety

While I wouldn't discourage anyone from experimenting to learn about herbal remedies and making their own, I can't recommend it as a real good choice if you don't have time to do a lot of learning. My own preparations sometimes work and sometimes don't. As best I can tell, this almost always results from variations in the herbs and maybe minor things I couldn't control during the preparation. I don't exactly have a fully equipped laboratory, right?

What I do recommend are herbs for anxiety that have been made, under controlled pharmaceutical conditions, into natural remedies for anxiety and successfully used by me and many others world-wide. Natural remedies for anxiety and depression have significant advantages over synthetic prescription chemicals - if they are properly prepared. At recommended dosages they should have no side effects, which many synthetics do. Also they are not addictive while quite a few anti-anxiety prescription medications are.

The best choice may be to deal with anxiety and depression without any kind of herbal or synthetic remedy using either individual or group therapeutic techniques, deep relaxation and desensitization training, meditation or other mental and physical exercises. But many people just lack the time or the ability in the midst of a hectic life to practice some of these techniques as consistently as they would need to get relief. If you are interested in a non-medicinal technique, you might want to check out Panic Away which is a technique many have had success with.

I personally like the products from Native Remedies because they are created under carefully controlled conditions and have undergone testing (and a lot of people have used them successfully), so I feel like they're a very reliable source. I also combine them with mental techniques, but I've mostly stopped making my own - except for some non-medicinal teas which I still like to make myself. I do find that just making and then relaxing a bit with a home-made herbal tea is a nice activity for slowing things down when it gets crazy.

PureCalm Natural Herbs for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

PureCalm is a natural herbal remedy in liquid form for stopping anxiety, panic attacks, irritability and stress symptoms. Formulated by a clinical psychologist, PureCalm mixes the calming properties of Lemon Balm, Lavender and Passion Flower. You can take it 3 to 4 times daily, or when you really need it.

MindSoothe for depression, anxiety and insomnia

A specially compounded safe and natural herbal remedy, it's been used successfully for coping with depression, OCD, Panic Disorder, anxiety and insomnia. As an all natural remedy, it can be used by both adults and children with no side effects and it is NOT addictive. MindSoothe's been chosen by thousands of satisfied customers all over the world.

Relagen - For Stress, Anxiety and Depression

Made from strictly natural ingredients, Relagen's active ingredients have no known side effects in appropariate amounts. Containing Vitamin C as well as B vitamins, Relagen's a patent-pending, standadized, proprietary blend of extracts from the plants magnolia oficinalis and phellodenron amurense binds to important targets associated with anxiety in the central nervous system. It does not bind to the sedation casuing benzodiazepine receptors the way that Valium and Prozac do, yet has relaxing qualities similar to the benzodiazepine class of drugs. Other natural ingredients including the patented and award-winning Suntheanine also contribute to anti-depressive and anti-anxiety effects.

Since the medicinal approaches, whether they use prescription or natural herbal remedies, don't actually cure anything, if you want to move toward a different type of lifestyle you need a different approach. Drugs or herbs, both are ways to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of anxiety (in this case). They really can't resolve whatever the underlying causes are and they don't help you learn how to resolve any issues you have and be more comfortable and happier.

They help, especially when things have gone way out of control. But they are symptom treaters. Maybe I better 'fess up here so you don't think I'm doing some big number on how together I am. I still will use herbal remedies for anxiety. There are times when I need the extra help - the quick relief. But as I continue to practice with the tools I've found that work for me, it happens less often.

I use a couple of meditative type techniques that I've modified a bit to suit me, and a type of "self-analysis" that helps me step back far enough to see more clearly what's going on.

I don't recommend anything specific anymore because it seems to be so highly individual. There are such a LOT of techniques both for meditation (or something that I would probably think of as a type of meditation) and for self-analysis that it's kind of a shoot-in-the-dark game recommending things.

What I do suggest is that you can change your life by finding one or more techniques that fit your style and your personality - ones that you like and make sense to you - and work (that's very important, it may be fun or feel good but if it isn't actually improving how you cope with and experience your day-to-day life, it's just a form of entertainment).

And I'd suggest staying well away from any 'cult-like' outfits or people. You know, the ones with the one true answer for everyone, or the secrets of the ages. Or the ones that cost an arm and a leg. After all just because you experience anxiety that doesn't mean you have to be a mark for all the goofs and conmen running around pretending to be life gurus and spiritual guides - for a fee.

Sure you may continue to need drugs or herbal remedies from time to time but you can find your own path to a better and more satisfying life as part of the process of dealing with your anxiety.