Hypericum is a photosensitizing & toxic plant

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Michael,

Thanks for this information. I may try st johns wort myself for coccygeal

pain.

 

can you provide the publisher or the ISBN # of the book you referred to?

 

thanks so much.

 

Cara O. Frank, R.Ac, Dipl Ac & Ch.H.

Six Fishes Healing Arts &

President China Herb Company of the Chinese Herb Program

Tai Sophia Institute of the Healing Arts

215-772-0770

 

 

 

 

Michael Tierra <mtierra

 

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:20:54 -0700

 

RE: Hypericum is a photosensitising & toxic plant

 

 

 

 

 

The specific indication for hypericum is for nerve pain. It is very specific

for cocygeal (sp) pain. I had a very memorable patient who had chronic-acute

pain of the coccyx. I did a lot of acupuncture and other herbal treatments

for this condition, though this was many years ago and I think my

acupuncture skill has improved a lot these days and if i were to see someone

like that patient again today, i probably could do better. However, I looked

up hypericum in Boericke's Materia Medica (a really important book not only

for homeopathy but for herbal therapy, with an incredible array of

psycho-physiological indicates for each herb) and it said it was specific

for pain of the coccyx. I gave her the mother tincture about 30 drops 3

times daily and within three days the pain was completely gone. Nerve pain,

nerve damage, pains such as smashing a finger with a hammer are all very

responsive to hypericum. Its because of its traditional benefit for the

nervous system that hypericum has become popular for depression. Think of it

as an herb that relieves blood and qi stagnation and cools heat

(antiinflammatory). Its one of the great herbs of the world.

 

It has a traditional use in Chinese medicine. The whole herb is classified

as sweet and slightly bitter, cool, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory,

antibiotic, diuretic, dispels stagnant blood, anti-swelling. It is used for

acute and chronic hepatitis, early stage of hepatic cirrhosis, actue

conjunctivitis, tonsilities, appendicitis/ The Chinese dose is 15 to 60 gm

prepared as a decoction. Externally it is used for boils, furuncles,

pyodermas, herpes zoster, snake bites, traumatic injury. The fresh herb is

mashed and topically applied. (from Chinese Medicinal Herbs of hong Kong vol

2 ( a great series of books that describes many herbs commonly used by

Western herbalists that are locally used in Chinese folk medicine).

 

Michael Tierra

www.planetherbs.cm