Saint Johns Wort

General description
History
Applications
Chemical properties
Precautions
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Saint Johns Wort comes for in almost whole Asia and Europe, in other countries is he imported. The plant is to be found along dirt roads, road sides and open forest places. Saint Johns Wort is a remaining or fixed herbal like plant.

The plant has egg-around till elongated leaves.

The plant blossoms from May until August with golden flowers. In the leaves and flower leaves small oil glands, this sit are small holes in the leaf. If the leaves bruised become and flowers, walks away the oil, through which on the leaves (and on the hands of the picking cherry) rust brown stay behind stain.

The stems are stiff and vary in length of 20 until 100 cm.



Self Saint Johns Wort cultivate.
The plant grows thrives the best on dry, alkaline ground only under all possible circumstances. The seed has to germinate a short sovereign period necessarily. You can sow the seed therefore best in the slat fall outside.
By in the spring you can want to lay the seed a time in the freezer.
The plants replant after rise, the plant distance is 30 x 50 cm.
The stations is sunny till half shadow.


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The appellation Saint Johns Wort is originating of the fact that the flowers and the leaves on 24 June were picked. This is the holiday of Saint Johannes the Doper, the day, on which the sun stands on her most point, and the moment that the plant contains the most therapeutic substances.
The French term "Millepertuis" refers to the many openings in the leaves (the word "pertuis" means "opening"). The name "Hypericum" refers to the god Hyperion, father of the sun in the Greek mythology. A reason of this reference to the sun has been glittered be that the flowers so yellow.
The Saint Johns Wort stands since the antiquity known as medicinal plant.
It was prescribed with name by Dioscorides, physician in the armies of Nero in the first century after Christ. In the middle ages, one used the plant by the preparation of different remedies only also as "devil chase away" or "fuga daemonium". At the attic of the houses, one hung post to protect with Saint-Johns wort self against bad minds and witches. The herb spreads by the drying a smell of incense. This smell is pleasant keeps away for god only the diabolic off. The drive out of the bad (depressions) can be found again in modern treatments on basis of Saint Johns Wort.

According to a legend, someone will that before going to sleep on
Saint Johns Wort wanted to become held the whole night by eleven awake.

In the beginning of the 16e century was the famous Swiss physician Paracelsus (the inventor of the theory of the signatures) a supporter of Saint Johns Wort for the treatment of wounds, because the plant shows wound self many openings or.


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Working and character.
Inflammations brake, cure promoting, soothing, nerve relaxing, anti-depressive.

Internal use.
- By shock and hysteria.
- By light depressions.
- By dejection in the menopause and by menstruation habits.
- By sensitive intestines.
- By stomach ulcers.
- By bed urinating and chronic bladder inflammation.
- Two a three heads tea per day help by light depressions.

External.
- By stab wound, bone sore, light burnings.
- In and externally by nerve habits, ischias, back pain, pain after operations.
- In and externally by herpes and belt rose.

Saint Johns Wort becomes uses professional by diabetic neuralgia, multiple scleroses and the illness of Parkinson.
Also Saint Johns Wort becomes uses by the consequences of radiations therapy.
Together with other herbs, it becomes uses also by withdrawal of anti-depressives, as prozac.
Someone else application is by nerve damage and depressions by aids.
Saint Johns Wort works also well by particular kinds of bladders inflammation.

It exist tell over this season that the fortune till checked dream can promote
By which the dreamers influence are dreams can.
Essence of the flowers is applied by agony, nightmares and fear for "resignation".
Saint Johns Wort has a protective working on vulnerable, open personalities and take on board inner harmony.

Tincture of the fresh plant and preparations of that are best by internal use and by sores, belt rose and herpes, take then three turn per day 2 until 5 ml.
For a method for the making of a tincture click here.

There its many tablets and drops available that help by light depressions.
Examples of this are Hypericum (tincture ) and Watch birds Hyperiforce (tablets ) of Dr.

Follow by these products the indications of the producer.

Saint Johns Wort combined works with Vervain, good by depressiveness and fears.
Saint Johns Wort combined works with horse cake good by bladder problems.
Give bed urinating children asked in the evening a cup tea of Saint Johns Wort.
For a method for the making of a tea click here.

The oil-extract of Saint Johns Wort is good for fire wound and sores and is also good as
Massage oil by back and nerve pain.

Make of Saint Johns Wort oil.
Make the oil through firstly on a dry June morning (21 June) the blossoming flower button to pick. Pound these fine in a mortar with a little vegetable oil.
Do the mixture in a glass pot and cover the complete with oil and shake it completely good.
Let this in the sun stand and shake became regular till the oil deep red of colour.
Sift the ultimately and do it in a bottle and label tar the bottle with indication of the date.
For someone else method for the making of medicinal oil click here.


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In the plant present matters.
Ethereal oil, hypericine, hyperforine, pseudohyperforine, tan-bark matter, choline , bitters matter, saponiens, mucinen, inuline.


Constituents in Saint Johns Wort.
Aglycone Quercetine, Cadinene (ethereal oil), Cadmium 0.0001%-0.0003% (root), Cadmium 0.0001%-0.0005% (plant), Cadmium 0.0001%-0.0007% (leaf), Carotene 0,0165% (seed), Carotenoids (plant), Caryophyllene (ethereal oil), Chlorophyll (plant), Choline (plant), Cineole (ethereal oil), Ethereal oil 0.06%-0.35% (plant), Ethereal oil 0,33% (seed), Fat 32.8%-32.8% (seed), Flavone Hypericide, Flavonoid 11,71% (flower), Hypericide, Hypericine, Hyperine (plant), Hyperoside (plant), Myrcene (ethereal oil), Myristic Acid (plant), Octanol (ethereal oil), Palmitine Hard (plant), Pectin (plant), Phenol (plant), Phloroglucinol (plant), Pinene (ethereal oil), Protein 18.1%-20.7% (seed), Pyrogallol (plant), Quercetine (plant), Quercetine - Aglycone, Quercitrine (plant), Red Pigment, Resin, Rutin (plant), Saponins (seed), Sitosterol (plant), Stearic Acid (plant), Tannins 12,1% (seed)


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Saint Johns Wort becomes well "natural prozac" named, but may only instead of Prozac taken become on advice of a physician. Do not use it by heavy depressions. Strong extracts can, in combination with sunlight, rash cause, but by normal use comes that not for.
Saint Johns Wort can influence the working of other medicines (o. a. the pill), ups and downs thus carefully with the combination of Saint Johns Wort and other medicines.
The most ethereal oils cannot be taken in without risk. Use ethereal exclusive internal oil has as you sufficient knowledge or consult a (homeopathic) physician. Over the general is however the working by external use more strongly than by internal use.

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Here a number stand impress of plates / photographs / of Saint Johns wort (Hypericum perforatum).






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Literature

[1]. Bremness, Lesley;- the complete naslagwerk SEASON for the cultivating and use -
Fifth busily; Wooden: Of Reemst Publisher (2000). ISBN 90-410-0158-1
[2]. Shaw, Nun;- herb medicine - First busily; Cologne: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
(1999). ISBN 3-8290-1511-9
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