Perforate St John's-wort - Hypericum perforatum - a cure for injuries, depression and good digestion

Perforate St John's-wort (common Saint John's wort and St John's wort) - Hypericum perforatum is a flowering perennial plant, in the family Hypericaceae, that grows up to 1 meter.
Its stems are woody near the base and may appear jointed from leaf scars. The branches are typically clustered about a depressed base. The leaves are yellow-green in color.
Perforate St John's-wort is native to temperate parts of Europe and Asia, but it has spread to temperate regions worldwide. It grows in dry and damp places, abandoned fields, mountain meadows, and roads.

Use of Perforate St John's-wort in traditional medicine

St. John's wort is a highly regarded herb, for the treatment of wounds, burns, ulcers, hemorrhoids, broken bones and like, externally in the form of oil and ointment.
St. John's wort tea is used against stomach ulcer and twelve-paltry intestines, diarrhea, dysentery, bronchitis, cough, tuberculosis, tracheitis, influenza.
St. John's wort tea is used against nerve diseases, depression, neurosis, insomnia, weakness, anemia, female diseases, diseases of the yolk, liver and urinary tract.
St. John's wort strengthens the immune system.