RE: St john's Wort Info & help pls?

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• To: R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au
• Subject: RE: St john's Wort Info & help pls?
• From: M* B* <f*@ozemail.com.au>
• Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:00:02 +1000

Thanks muchly again Rod
I cant find too many references to it from 100ad through to 1600
I guess not too many people were publisng books in those days.
I am just surprised that such an interting and effective herb  doent have
more history.

By the way I end the article thus
You may be interested :-) (Wouldnt harvesting it in flower be a good
eradication technique?)
Now &The future
Modern research has shown Hypericin one of the chemicals in St. John's Wort
may have some of the following actions: antidepressant, antiflu, antHIV,
antileukemic, anntiretroviral, antistomatitic, antiolytic; bacteriocide,
cyctotoxic, herbicde, insecticide, larvicide, phototoxic, MAO-inhibitor,
tonic, tranquilizer, viricide.
In 1996, 140 million dollars worth of St. John's Wort was sold in Germany
alone.
While it grows literally as a weed here in Australia (and therrefor can not
be sold in nurseries).  Our blind politicians insist that we poison our
plants and import someone elses.  Given the current lack of vision in
Australian politics this crazy situation is likely to continue.

Michael Bailes.
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