Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you something interesting about the golden root.
Rhodiola rosea is also called the golden root. This plant is not very lucky. Rhodiola has been shown to be helpful for anxiety disorders, but people who prescribe medicinal plants are lazy or fail to do normal scientific research. Therefore, the effect of rhodiola cannot be officially confirmed. That is, decent modern evidence-based medicine resources hint that rhodiola works, but they immediately justify that there is no hard evidence.
Personally, Rhodiola is close to me because it grows in my native Altai Territory. The Americans also find it at home, but every time they remember Altai and say that we have world reserves of rhodiola here. It is interesting. I do not like herbal medicine, but I like to wander through wild places and find a familiar medicinal plant.
In fact, there are more than 20 varieties of this Rhodiola, and if you found something on the hills or in the foothills, then do not rush to brew these plants for yourself. The effect can be unpredictable.
Rhodiola was traditionally used to treat a bunch of different diseases, but then gradually around the end of the nineteenth century, the indications narrowed to head treatment. Most often, this plant was prescribed as a stimulant or headache remedy.
Rhodiola is loved by herbalists. The composition and active substances have long been decomposed on the shelves and these chemical formulas are constantly drawn in books.
It is clear that the fashion in such studies was set by Russian scientists. It was in the dashing nineties. We traditionally planned normal scientific research poorly, but in the nineties it turned out to be a complete mess. Nevertheless, the research made a fuss, and in the 2000s the so-called "post-Russian" research in the West began.
Overseas phytotherapists also did not bother with the quality of research. Rhodiola was used more as a stimulant or adaptogen.
No one doubted that Rhodiola worked. Serious sources noted its effect on the general well-being and psyche.
Nowadays, the golden root is mentioned in passing as a treatment for anxiety disorders.
