Acute treatment of moderate to severe depression with hypericum extract WS 5570 (St John's wort): randomised controlled double blind non-inferiority trial versus paroxetine

An editing error may have caused confusion in the abstract of this paper by A Szegedi and colleagues (BMJ 2005;330:503-6, 5 Mar). The initial daily dose of hypericum WS 5570 was 900 mg split into three doses of 300 mg—that is, 300 mg three times a day.