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St John’s wort is almost found everywhere in Europe, up to East Russia and acclimated in many parts of the world: China, Australia, North Africa and America.
As its trade is involved, it is imported from the old USSR, Bulgaria and Romania.
In the Middle Ages the houses were burned and the smoke were fleeing demons. So, then, was called " Fuga demonium".
It is widely distributed in Catalonia, preferably at sea level areas.
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It is a perennial herb.
The stems have two prominent lines.
Leaves are opposite, speckeled with translucent glands.
Flowers are yellow and grouped in corymbiform cymes.
The fruit is a capsule.
Leaves and inflorescences contain essential oils and tannins
It is used in medicine as antiseptic, healing and astringent agents in dermatology
It is popularly used as a vulnerary or wound healing agent (“oil for blows”).
Today, this plant is used as an antidiarrheal, a diuretic...
...and, especially, as an anxiolytic which effect equals or exceeds the famous Prozac without its adverse effects.