Herbal Supplements & Anger

Anger is a natural human emotion present in different people at different levels from mild agitation to explosive outbursts caused by anything from annoyance at a specific person or an insignificant event. How a person deals with that anger helps determine if special steps are needed to control the anger.

While a thorough medical and psychological review will be needed to determine the underlying cause of out-of-control anger once it has been established pharmaceutical help may be a benefit, there are those who hesitate to take prescription drugs, for a variety of reason, and look, instead, for a more natural means of anger management. Many of the typically prescribed drugs also have some side effects that make people turn away from them.

Not everyone with anger issues express their anger in loud and dangerous ways. Some will become quiet, slowly and quietly stewing inside while other may yell and scream, throw and break things or become constantly moody and easily irritates.

Some of the most commonly prescribed drugs that treat symptoms of anger management may cause side effects such as nausea, sweating, sleepiness, sexual side effects and others. The possibility of these may influence a few to seek herbal supplements for treatment.

Serotonin and Dopamine work as neurotransmitters and an unbalanced level can cause feelings of stress, depression, anxiety and other feelings related to causing extreme anger outbursts. Herbal supplements such as rhodiola rosea is said to optimize the balance of serotonin and dopamine as well as offering a calming effect by staving off stress. Ii is also claimed to help improve sexual function in men. It is also known as golden root, arctic root and crenulin.

One of the natural herbs often prescribed for stress relief is kava kava as a medication for anxiety. With St. John’s Wart is said to help with moderate depression as well as stress relief. It is marketed as a treatment for depression and is used to help the person’s attitude and overall outlook remain more positive. Valerian is another herb used for its calming ability to help treat anxiety and the feeling of being nervous.

The B complex vitamins are said to offer relief from a variety of symptoms that are suspected of causing potentially violent outbursts and are often used in an herbal treatment in anger management.

In addition to herbal supplements, many naturalists believe that mental training can help reduce the number and severity of angry outburst and with the use of natural anxiety-reducing agents can enable a person to calm themselves down before taking any action, verbal or physical, which they could later regret.

Some psychologists believe that a few people may have been born with a low threshold for handling frustration and will go off at being annoyed by events of even sounds and cannot tolerate being inconvenienced. Even minor mistakes by others will send them into an unjustified rage, but being unable to accept situations that may inconvenience them, the may believe that the situation is unjust to them, rationalizing their violent reaction.