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Name: Hypericum

Other Names: Stinking Tutsan

Description: Hypericum also known as Stinking Tutsan is a genus of about 400 species of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae, subfamily Hypericoideae (formerly often considered a full family Hypericaceae). The genus has a nearly world-wide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. All members of the genus may be referred to as St. John's-worts, though they are also commonly just called hypericums, and some are known as tutsans. The marsh St. John's-worts are nowadays separated in Triadenum.
Hypericum is since long used in herbalism. It was already known to have medical properties in the Classical Antiquity. It was a standard component of theriacs, from the Mithridate of Aulus Cornelius Celsus' De Medicina (ca. 30 CE) to the Venice treacle of d'Amsterdammer Apotheek in 1686. Folk usages included oily extract ("St. John's oil") and Hypericum snaps.

Hypericum is the most potent species and it is today grown and collected commercially for use in herbalism and medicine; other St. John's-worts probably also possess interesting properties and chemical compounds but are not well researched. As these secondary compounds appear to be related to deterring herbivores, they are present in varying and unpredictable quantities. Still, a number of high-yield cultivars have been developed.

Two main compounds of interest have been studied in more detail: hyperforin and hypericin. However, the pharmacology of H. perforatum is not resolved, and at least its antidepressant properties are caused by a wide range of factors interacting. As psychiatric medication, it is usually taken as pills, or as tea. Few standardized preparations are available, and research has mainly studied alcoholic extracts and isolated compounds. What research data exists supports a noticeable effect in many cases of light and medium depression, but no significant improvement of severe depression and OCD.

Another common use of Hypericum is as oily extract. The ruby-red oil appears to be strongly antibiotic, assisting healing of wounds, first-degree burns and concussions. Both hypericin and hyperforin are considered to be antibiotic by modern science. But, justifying it with the then-current doctrine of signatures, herbalist William Coles wrote in the 17th century already that

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