Show 136 St John's Wort Tea

Some people call it goatweed, Hypericum perforatum or St. John's Wort. It can be an invasive plant to farmers and ranchers but it has some medicinal properties. It is also a plant that has to be seriously evaluated before you decide to use it.





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Resources Mentioned: 


Physicians Steeped In Culture Of ‘Toughing It Out’ Often Fear Reporting Suicidal Thoughts, Mental Health Illness from the publication, Modern Healthcare.

California Board of Pharmacy booklet on Health Notes Alternative Medicines.

St. John's Wort Herbal Use and Medicinal Properties from AltNature.com

National Institutes of Health Dietary Supplement Label Database. You plunk in the name of the product, or you can search by ingredient or manufacture. This is the link to the St John's Wort list of products.

Verywell Mind has a good write up of St John's Wort and some of the cautions about it's use.

Kaiser Permanente has an access point the Natural Medicine Comprehensive Database. I’ll provide a link to the Kaiser site; you will need to click the link on the left side of the Kaiser screen to access the database.

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