Bodily Influence: Expectorant, Diuretic, Astringent, Sedative. Uses: An old custom of our Indians was to dry Hypericum and use it as a meal, as they did Acorn. They were also known to eat the fresh leaves for their soothing effect. In many cases of bronchitis, has been known to eliminate all signs of the condition. A family remedy to overcame bedwetting if taken every night before going to bed. Dose, ½ teaspoonful of leaves and flowers to ½ – 1 cupful of boiling water, steeped 1 hr.
St. John’ s wart can be administered to all, whatever age or sex, and was at one time found in almost every country household. For treatment of dysentery, diarrhoea, bleeding of the lungs, worms, jaundice, suppressed urine, and / or pus in the urine, hysteria and nervous irritability. It will help correct irregular menstruation along with proper diet. A specific for deep, low pain of the coccyx( the vertebrae at the base of the spine), head complaints arising from watery matters of obstructions of phlegm in the head, or from the gases rising to the head, stomach spasm, slight obstructions of phlegm on the chest and lungs are healed at once by tea made of St. John’ s wort. The tea with a small amount of Aloe powder is of special influence on the liver, which can be observed chiefly in the urine; whole flakes of morbid matter are sometimes washed away with it.
J. Kloss, in“ Back to Eden”, gives us the following:“ The seeds steeped in boiling water will expel congealed blood from the stomach caused by bruises, falls, or bursting veins. For this purpose use a heaping teaspoonful of the seeds to a cup of boiling water, and take a large mouthful of the tea often, throughout the day.”
ST. JOHN’ S WORT Hypericum perforatum, L.( Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 1964)
Dose: Of the tincture, 8 – 15 drops in water before meals. As a tea, 1 teaspoonful of the tops and flowers, cut small or granulated, to 1 cupful of boiling water; sweeten to taste with honey. Externally: The fresh bruised flowers added to olive oil and placed in a glass container to age in the sun for ten days to two weeks, after which time fresh flowers replace the old ones, and simmered in original container on a bed of straw, to keep the glass from breaking, is excellent for swollen breasts and hard tumours, sciatic pain, ulcers, old sores and all wounds. Can be applied as a fomentation of boiled flowers and tops for the above mentioned when caught unprepared. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of whole fresh plant— After-pains, Asthma, Bites, Brachial neuralgia, Breast( affections of), Brain( concussion of), Bruises, Bunions, Compound fractures, Corns, Coxalgia, Diarrhoea, Gunshot wounds, Haemorrhoids, Headache, Hydrophobia, Hypersensitiveness, Impotence, Labour( effects of), Meningitis, Mind( affections of), Neuralgia, Operations( effects of), Panaritium, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Scars, Sciatica, Spastic paralysis, Spinal concussion, Spinal irritation Stiff neck, Tetanus, Ulceration, Whooping cough, Wounds. Russian Experience: Zveroboi,“ Killing the beast” or“ Beast Killer”, grows in many parts of Russia. After eating Zveroboi( Hypericum) in the summer time, sheep, cattle, horses and pigs develop white