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Record W4415688544 · doi:10.30595/hmj.v8i2.27625

St. John's Wort St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) as an Alternative Treatment for Depression

2025· article· W4415688544 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueHerb-Medicine Journal Terbitan Berkala Ilmiah Herbal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicNatural Compound Pharmacology Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDepression (economics)Alternative medicineMental healthQuality of life (healthcare)IndonesianFolk medicine

Abstract

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Depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide that has a significant impact on the quality of life of individuals and society. Depression has recently become one of the mental health illnesses that many people in Indonesia experience, but Indonesian people do not yet have concerns about the treatment of depression, especially mild depression. Conventional depression treatments that already exist, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, have been proven effective, but have side effects so that people are afraid to undergo treatment. St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) is one of the alternative treatments for depression that is popular throughout the world, but in Indonesia there is no herbal medicine industry company that has developed this plant as a treatment for mild depression with herbs. This review aims to review the effectiveness and safety of St. John's Wort as a treatment for depression, as well as discuss its potential benefits and limitations. Based on a literature review, St. John's Wort has been shown to be effective in reducing symptoms of depression in patients with mild to moderate depression. However, of course, it still needs to be used with caution because of the potential for side effects and interactions with other drugs. Thus, St. John's Wort can be an alternative treatment for depression with new herbs in Indonesia that is effective, but it needs to be used under strict supervision.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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