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What it is: A yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum perforatum.
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What it is: A yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum perforatum.
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* St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - used for burns and scrapes
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Internally, for all forms of herpes one should take St. Johnswort Hypericum perforatum, either in the form of a tea, a tincture, or a capsule.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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St. Johnswort Hypericum perforatum is also a good general tonic for the nervous system and therefore useful in the treatment of bed-wetting and enuresis generally.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Moquin [526] mentions having seen the leaves of _Chenopodium vulvaria_, and of _Diplotaxis muralis_ reduced to a fourth of their natural size; and he alludes to other cases of the same nature, seen by other observers, in _Hypericum perforatum_ and _Blitum polymorphum_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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A popular dressing for cuts and wounds is the common St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) well pounded and put into a bottle of olive oil.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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The flowers of the St. Johnswort, or _Hypericum perforatum_, usually have five petals, but the number varies from three to eight or more.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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St. John's-wort (Hypericum perforatum) is an intrusive weed in all hilly pastures, etc., and may fairly be called a social plant.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Hypericum perforatum, a social plant in U.S.A. Hyracotherium cuniculus, Owen on.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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