Specification :
[ Botanical Name] Hypericum perforatum ( LINN.)
[ The source of the plant] Any of various perennial Garcinia herbs, It is distributed in Jiangsu, Shangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Shannxi and Guizhou, etc.
[ Active ingredient] The main active ingredient include Hypericin, Pseudohypericin, Protohypericin, Protopseudohypericin and so on, there are also include Kampferol, Luteolin and Hyperforin , Adhyperforin.
[ Main specifications] Hypericins 0.3% Hypericin 0.3% Hyperforin 3%
[ Appearance] Brown powder
Aromatic, astringent, resolvent, expectorant and nervine. Used in all pulmonary complaints, bladder troubles, in suppression of urine, dysentery, worms, diarrhoea, hysteria and nervous depression, haemoptysis and other haemorrhages and jaundice. For children troubled with incontinence of urine at night an infusion or tea given before retiring will be found effectual; it is also useful in pulmonary consumption, chronic catarrh of the lungs, bowels or urinary passages. Externally for fomentations to dispel hard tumours, caked breasts, ecchymosis, etc.