Sadly, to anyone with a more than passing literacy in the subject, the field of herb-drug interactions continues to be predictably dominated by primary report data of abysmally low quality, a mediocre mainstream secondary literature which almost without exception is entirely misinformed, and popular/mass media journalism which is invariably sensational rubbish authored by ignorant hacks. (I could say what I really felt but that would not be appropriate).

Since St. John's Wort (SJW) has been the defining herbal of this field since the initial reports of SJW pharmacokinetic interactions with digoxin, cyclosporine, and indinavir between 1998-2000, the focus here at herbological.com is partly to use SJW as an illustration of the technical complexity as well the ideological biases that permeate the field and which need to be understood before anything moderately intelligent can be said about the subject.

To that end, we reproduce the following original items on SJW interactions for the interest of visitors to this site:

1.( 2000) Herbal Pharmacokinetics: A Practitioner Update with reference to St John's Wort. (download chart)

2. (2005) Warding Off Evil in the 21st Century: St.John's Wort as a Xensoensory Activator. Herbal Hypotheses I.

3. (2005) Herb-Drug Interactions Quick Reference Tables: St.John's Wort . (download chart)

As a further resource for herbological.com visitors we shall be adding and updating the herb-drug interactions quick reference tables to the download section periodically.These tables will be current as of the date in the footer of each table. References are specifically not included, interested readers will have to wait for our forthcoming textbook on the subject for the associated literature sources. These are however, the most authoritative documents currently available - trust me.

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