Hypericum perforatum

Classification

St. John's wort is known to be most investigated medicinal plant which is usually used to reduce the depression.

It is the renowned herbal medicine world wide which helps in comforting mental level by reacting with some chemicals in brain.

This plant is a native to temperate and subtropical regions of North America, Europe, Asia Minor, Russia, India and china.

St. John's wort is a perennial plant and indigenous to Europe. It grows freely sometimes as weed in waste areas.

This plant grows to a height of 1 to 3 feet, bearing yellow coloured flowers.

The calyx and corolla is marked by black spots and lines, having five sepals and petals which appear in ovary pear shape.

This herbaceous perennial plant thrives in either summer or winter-dominant rainfall pattern.

It grows best at the altitude of 1500 m or more and prefers rainfall les than 500 mm.

Today this plant grows abundantly in Europe and all the parts of world.

Flowers

St. John's wort contains hypericin and hyperforin.

This herb is best known as herbal anti-depressant and anti-alterative.
It helps to fight sleeplessness, improves capillary circulation, relieves from depression and anxiety.
It is also useful in cardiac circulation and as an alterative helps in purifying blood.
This herb also helps in nerve pain in adults. It can also be taken in dysentery, worms, diarrhea, hysteria, nervous breakdown, haemorrhages and jaundice.