Effect of St. John’s Wort on Wound Healing

St. John’s Wort is a yellow flowered, five-leaved, perennial herbaceous plant that grows in Asia, Europe, North Africa and United States of America [1,2]. St. John’s Worth, whose herbal oil extract is commonly being used as a household remedy for healing wounds, is known as Hypericum perforatum in Latin; whereas names such as rose of Sharon, chase devil, tipton’s weed or holy herb are commonly used in daily language [2]. St. John’s Wort contains ingredients such as naphtobacrones, flouroglusinol, flavonoids, bioflavonoids and phenylpropanoids that promote wound healing process, with their antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties [3]. Mini Review

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Advances in Complementary & Alternative Medicine

• Publication date

  2018-05-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.31031/acam.2018.02.000548
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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