St. John's Wort for mood: B → B

Merged additional source by Claude (gold-standard provenance sweep): a distinct, independently-verified paper ("A systematic review of St. John's wort for major depressive disorder.", PMID 27589952) reporting the same intervention×outcome was found instead of being discarded as a duplicate — same claim, one more piece of real evidence.

What triggered this change

A systematic review of St. John's wort for major depressive disorder.. Read: Substrate breakdown · PubMed.

What we said before vs now

Before
Grade B
After
Grade B
effective for mild-to-moderate depression in trials

What this does not change

Reviewer & methodology

Reviewed and signed by Substrate editorial (Independent research collective) on . Methodology v1.

See also

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Substrate. St. John's Wort for mood: B → B. https://evidencebased.info/changes/2026-07-16-st-johns-wort-mood-b-to-b. Updated 2026-07-16.
BibTeX
@misc{substrate_6stjohnswortmoodbtob,
  author = {Substrate editorial},
  title  = {St. John's Wort for mood: B → B},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://evidencebased.info/changes/2026-07-16-st-johns-wort-mood-b-to-b},
  note   = {evidencebased.info}
}