St. John's Wort and its Active Principles in Depression and Anxiety

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Walter E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy MDT
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Psychotherapy.; Plant biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Plant Biochemistry.

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