Sajoc,
To be blunt this is a lot of biased rubbish. Countries that use herbal remedies do so only because they cannot afford real help, anti depressants. The placebo effect is thier best "drug".
The only herbal treatment that has any anti depressant action is St John's Wort and that is only for very mild depression. And never to be mixed with meds.
Yes, food is important. Obviously. We hasve to eat to live. But tell me how do these poverty stricken peoples eat well enough to avoid depression. ALl they can afford is subsistence food, no protein, nothing useful except filling the stomach.
You are trying to make a poverty stricken diet sound like it is a solution. I can tell you how many of those poor people would prefer their current diet to Western diets. None. They eat what they must, that's it.
The WHO is simply being realistic and recognising the povert factor. It proves nothing at all except the poverty stricken eat worse food and diets than we have available.
Herbal treatments DO NOT work as well as anti depressants. Clinically proven many, many times.
List the herbal treatments which are better than anti depressants, don't just make sweepingly ignorant comments as you have. Tell us the magic potions. Dare you.
And you conclude by saying always purchase your herbs from a knowledgable source. With what money do the poverty stricken achieve that Sojac?
And list some "knowledgable sources so we know who you are talking about. I'm guessing you are one such source, right? Got your own web site too I would suggest.
Back up your statements or retract them.