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Table 4 Anti-depression Western drugs

From: Literature based discovery of alternative TCM medicine for adverse reactions to depression drugs

Drug name

Side effect score

Indication

Replaceable Score

DRUGBANK Matching

 

Toxicity

Half life

Nefazodone

0.33333

0.0794702

4.1944025

Cases of life-threatening hepatic failure have been reported in patients treated with nefazodone.

2–4 h

Milnacipran

0.62295879

0.1589404

3.9194490

Oral LD50 rat: 213 mg/kg

6–8 h

Mianserin

0.34600026

0.1192

2.9026867

Oral LD50 rat: 780 mg/kg

10–17 h

Trazodone

0.81612163

0.31788079

2.5673826

Oral LD50 rat: 690 mg/kg

7.3 +/−  0.8 h.

Nortriptyline

0.3283245

0.1589404

2.0657082

Oral LD50 rat: 405 mg/kg

26 h

Duloxetine

0.99170246

0.91390728

1.0851237

Fatalities have been reported with doses of 1000 mg involving both mixed drugs as well as duloxetine alone

12 h

Clomipramine

0.41045464

0.39735099

1.03297751

One death involved a patient suspected of ingesting a dose of 7000 mg. The second death involved a patient suspected of ingesting a dose of 5750 mg.

32 h

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Reboxetine

0.36668174

0.47682119

0.76901309

Reports of seizures (rare) have been reported

12.5 h

Mirtazapine

0.59422385

0.95364238

0.62310972

Oral LD50 rat: 830 mg/kg in male Swiss mice

20–40 h

Venlafaxine

0.81547802

1.43046358

0.57007954

Overdose of venlafaxine is typically associated with mild symptoms

5 h

Citalopram

0.92540653

1.82781457

0.50629125

Oral LD50 rat:179 mg/kg

35 h

Fluoxetine

0.86558296

5.16556291

0.16756798

In a report that included 234 fluoxetine overdose cases, it was concluded that symptoms resulting from fluoxetine overdose were generally minor and short in duration

1–3 days