St. Johnswort Wallpaper, Hypericum perforatum

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This week we’re featuring St. Johnswort, Hypericum perforatum, which you might know as “for depression”, but that’s not exactly the whole story!

Just about any herb book will tell you that St. Johnswort is “for” depression, and sometimes there will be some something something serotonin – but usually the details are pretty fuzzy. That’s because the details are much more about your guts than they are about your head!

It’s well documented that mental health is closely tied to gut health – you can find studies about many aspects of gut health and their relation to mental health. So ok, maybe it isn’t breaking news that these are connected.

But did you know that 90% of all the serotonin in your body is produced in your guts?? From there, it impacts not only mood, but also digestion, satiety, regulating blood flow at the site of a wound, how much and how well you make melatonin (to help you sleep), as well as impacting bone density and more!

Only 10% of all serotonin is produced inside the brain, yet, when we think about mental health, we often confine our ideas about how to improve it to “chemicals in the brain”. St. Johnswort challenges us to break out of that box and see many more avenues of support we have available to us. Emotional health issues aren’t just “in your head” – they’re in your whole body, and supporting them needs a whole-body approach.

St. Johnswort isn’t just about serotonin though – that’s just one aspect of its activity!

St. Jonswort improves liver function, helping your body to clear out the trash. This is also the place where drug interactions can happen, and St. Johnswort does have a high likelihood of significant and even dangerous drug interactions. Any blood thinner, psychiatric drug, organ rejection drugs, HIV drugs, or any drug that is dosed carefully by time and/or weight is likely to have an interaction with St. Johnswort, so it’s important not to work with this herb if you are taking those kinds of drugs. (If you aren’t sure, the safest thing is just to skip it)

But St. Johnswort’s topical actions are not of concern for drug interactions – and these can be so helpful in first aid situations. This is one of the places we see the strong supportive action for nerve cell health – especially after an injury, it’s very helpful for restoring nerve function to the extent that’s possible, depending on the type of injury.

And all that only scratches the surface of the ways we can work with St. Johnswort!

Learn more about working with St. Johnswort:

• In relation to improving digestion in the Digestive Health course
• In relation to its actions on mental health and nerve cells in the Neurological & Emotional Health course
• In relation to first aid & injury care in the Herbal First Aid course
• In relation to caring for skin and wounds in the Integumentary (Skin) Health course
• In relation to menstruation in the Reproductive Health course
• In relation to supporting and improving liver function in the Elements of Detoxification course

And naturally, St. Johnswort is featured in our Materia Medica course, where you’ll learn over 100 of the most important herbs in our practice!

Download the wallpapers:

Laptop/desktop wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image to download. Then find the image on your device and select “Set Desktop Picture”.

Phone wallpaper:

For the high-resolution version, click on the image. That will open the higher resolution image – right-click on the image or hold on the image for the alt-menu, then select “Save to photos”. Find the picture in your photos and select “Use as Wallpaper”. You may need to “pinch” it in or out to either scale it down to fit your phone or scale it up to fit your phone, depending on which model you have.

You can also go back and view our full set of herbal wallpaper images.