Saturday June 21, 2014 (foodconsumer.org) -- Psychiatry Polska reports that more than 20 herbal remedies have been identified that can be potentially used as antidepressants, anxiety relieving agents or sleeping aids.Natural antidepressants are popular with patients suffering depression and they use these herbal remedies often without notifying their doctors.Szafra?ski T reviewed all preclinical and clinical studies and identified seven herbal remedies as effective antidepressants including hypericum, lavender, borage, roseroot, chamomile, saffron and ginseng.Of the seven, hypericum and saffron extracts have been proved to be effective in treating depression in controlled randomized clinical trials involving patients with mild or moderate depression, according to the report.  (David Liu) (photo credit: wikipedia)Szafra?ski T.  [Herbal remedies in depression--state of the art]. [Article in Polish]  Psychiatr Pol. 2014 Jan-Feb;48(1):59-73.