Advocates for the pediatric use of these products point to their long-standing use in folk remedies as evidence of their overall safety and tolerability
In their view, natural antidepressants should be preferred to synthetic antidepressants in pediatric patients due to a gentler side effect profile
the open-label study of SJW in juvenile depression reported by Findling found that approximately 75 percent of participants responded favorably.
A similar response rate was seen in the open-label SJW study in adolescent depression reported by Simeon