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Hypericum, St. John’s Wort

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Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

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Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563

Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
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Flora von Deutschland (21), Kohler, 1885

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Botanical name:
Hypericum perforatum (syn. H. officinalis)

Parts used:
Herb in flower

Temperature & Taste:
Cool (traditionally classed as Warm), dry. Sour, Sweet

Classifications:
2A APERIENT MEDICINES.    2B ATTENUATERS.    2D ATTENUATERS OF CONGEALED BLOOD.    2P. HEMOSTATIC.    2T. GLUTINATE
2W. SARCOTIC
3C. ALEXIPHARMIC.    3E. DIURETIC.    3G. EMMENAGOGUE.    3M. ARTHRITICS
4f. SPLENETIC.    4k. ARTHRITIC

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Settles Wind, Calms the Mind:
-nervous conditions, Anxiety, Insomnia, Trembling, Melancholy


2. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis, Promotes Healing, Eases Pain:
-Trauma; Bruising, Fractures, Burns, Wounds

3. Promotes Urine, Breaks Stones:
-suppressed, scanty, difficult or painful urination

4. Clears Heat, Stops Bleeding:
-Hematuria, Vomiting Blood

5. Clears Heat, Resists Poison:
-Bacterial and Viral infection including Herpes and Hepatitis

6. Clears Heat, Stops Cough and Wheezing:
-coughing, wheezing

7. Benefits the Kidneys, Clears Deficient Heat:
-Menopausal symptoms
-Incontinence

8. Kills Worms:


9. Externally:
-Oil or Ointment is applied to swellings and to help close the lips of Wounds, and may be used internally and externally for Ulcers including those of the leg.
-applied to Bruises, Contusions and Ecchymosis.
-oil or ointment is applied to Burns, hot swellings, inflammations,
Dermatitis, Herpes, Shingles, Sores, Tumors (including those of the Breast)
-Venetians used it topically to stimulate hair growth, believing it renewed
the roots of even the baldest of heads.
-special for Burns (Leclerc)

-as a fumigation to promote Delivery


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Major Formulas
Antidote of Seven Things (Paulus Aegineta)
Decoction for Wounds
Decoction for Jaundice
Syrup of Mugwort (Augustana)
Powder Against Bruising
Powder Against Rabies


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Cautions:
1. Generally Safe; safe for use when Breastfeeding.
2. Photosensitising effect.
3. May negate the effect of oral contraceptives.

POTENTIAL DRUG INTERACTIONS:
include: Anti-convulants, Cyclosporin, Digoxin, SSRI's, Warfarin, Oral Contraceptives.

Main Preparations used:
Distilled Water, Simple and Compound Oil (much used), Salt from the Ashes, Tincture of St. John's wort

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