Botanical name: Hypericum perforatum
Other name: Hypericum
Hypericum perforatum
Healing power:
- for insomnia,
- bedwetting,
- depression,
- to control mood,
- diuretic,
- to heal wounds,
anti spasmodic,
- anti- inflammatory,
- for skin rash,
- for painful joints,
- for stomach trouble,
- headache,
- jaundice,
- burns,
- melancholy,
- to improve brain,
- to increase IQ.
How to use:
Leaves and flowers are picked, when St. Johns wort is in full blossom.
Then you dry it at a warm place.
Recipe for the tea:
Pour 1/8 litre of water on 1 dessert spoon herb. Boil it. Wait 5 minutes. Drink 2 to 3 times per day a cup of tea. After 4 to 6 weeks depressions shall sisappear.
St. Johns wort makes skin and eyes sensitive to light. Therefore sun should be avoided during the treatment.
Preparation of St. Johns wort oil:
You need 13 g fresh herb for 1/4 litre oil.
The flowers are squashed and mixed with 250 g olive oil. This mixing store open for 4 days. Then you pour it into a bottle which has to be closed.
The oil is ready for liniment when it has turned red after 6 weeks. St. Johns wort is used as liniment in case of sprains, hermatomas, shingles sings, to sped up healing of wounds, for rheumatism and lumbago.
Description of the plant:
St.Johns wort grows perennial and can withstand frost. It nearly grows on every kind of soil, which let water through. You find it at pathes, at railway embarkments, on the edge of the forest.
The medicine plant reaches a height from 30 to 90 cm. It gets beautiful yellow flowers and blooms from July to September. The characteristical petals give the plant its name. They have got little light points, which contain the essential oil, called hyperici oleum. By rubbing with your fingers on the petals they color red.
Propagation:
Start seeds in March directly in your garden.
I sowed Hypericum on 10th March 2005 in flats indoors and on 18th March they germinated.
Hypericum perforatum: Samen/seeds
