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
PSEUDOHYPERICIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOHYPERICIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOHYPERICIN	2	Shoot	not available	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PSEUDOHYPERICODIHYDROANTHRONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
PYROGALLOL	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	1000.0	0.94	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	20000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCURONIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCURONIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-XYLOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-XYLOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Flower	not available	3380.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Shoot	3000.0	5240.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
RESORCYNOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHODAN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.

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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
Antigastritic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	2	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	3	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	=ICMR(Indian Council of Medical Research).1976.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.1.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambridge Printing Works, New Delhi.487 pp;ICMR.1987.Medicinal Plants of India.Vol.2.Indian Council of Med. Res.Cambr. Printing Works,New Delhi.600pp
Antihepatotoxic	12	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.