{"id":769,"date":"2009-02-10T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=769"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:23","slug":"can-i-take-st-johns-wort-if-i-am-not-on-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/769","title":{"rendered":"Can I take St John&#039;s wort if I am not on medications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, in your situation you can. Although St. John&#8217;s wort has some antiviral activity at high doses, there are no scientific studies to show that it can reduce people&#8217;s HIV viral load. However, it is effective against mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Many people with HIV have used St. John&#8217;s wort for this purpose<\/p>\n<p>There is a very good review at the following link: http:\/\/www.aids.org\/factSheets\/729-St-Johns-Wort-Hypericin.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand taking St John&#8217;s wort whilst on medication is a bad thing. However, I am not on any medication and read that there has been some studies that state St John&#8217;s wort may help kill the virus. Would you recommend taking it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}