Plant Hypericum perforatum (Clusiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common St. Johnswort; Hypericum; Klamath Weed; St. John's-wort; Goatweed

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
N-OCTANOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
N-UNDECANE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-UNDECANE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-UNDECANE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-ALLOOCIMENE	0	Plant	0.3	5.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NERAL	4	Plant	0.4	6.3	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Plant	1.0	18.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
NERYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	1.0	18.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Leaf	0.0	1200.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSANE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANE	0	Plant	23.0	414.0	1.73	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-CYCLOPSEUDOHYPERICIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOVOIMANIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NOVOIMANIN	0	Shoot	30000.0	40000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-1-ENE	0	Plant	1.5	17.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSAN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OPCS	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Gruenwald, J. et al. 1998. PDR for Herbal Medicine. 1st ed. Medical Economics Co., Montvale, NJ. 1244 pp. (abbreviated as PHR or Physicians Herbal Reference in my mind)
ORNITHINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	0.5	9.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	15	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	3	Merck 11th Edition
Ecbolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	4	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant	2	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Essential	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	7	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	26	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.