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St John's wort extract can be used as a safe neurotrophic product to prevent depression, regulate affective disorders and mood disorders, eliminate tension and depression, restore self-confidence and improve sleep. The active ingredient hypericin extracted from St John's Wort has significant anti-DNA , RNA virus function, can directly act on avian influenza, swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease and other virus DAN, interfere with the replication and reproduction of the virus and have a strong inhibitory effect on the virus.
1. Neuropsychiatric diseases: treatment of mild to moderate depression, anxiety, neurasthenia.
2. Insomnia.
3. Alcohol dependence syndrome.
4. Benign paroxysmal vertigo.
5. Cardiovascular neurosis.
6. Digestive system diseases: treatment of functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome.
7 .Others: pharyngeal paraesthesia, pain, delaying aging.
St John's Wort extract has long been used as an antidepressant in Europe (especially Germany), but research on its mechanism and effective ingredients is still under exploration. It is generally believed that St John's Wort, like ordinary antidepressants, inhibits the reabsorption of norepinephrine and serotonin.
It is theorized that St John's Wort acts simultaneously in many ways: inhibiting the reabsorption of norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine; low-level MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor); acting on the hypothalamus, inhibiting the secretion of cortisol. There are also theories that the crude extract of St John's Wort has a good affinity for some receptors related to the mass transfer of brain nerves, such as GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid).
GABA is one of the main substances that calm the central nervous system. New research shows that GABA is also related to antidepressant. Depression patients have very low GABA levels, and drugs that can enhance GABA activity also have antidepressant effects. It has also been proposed that St John's Wort inhibits the activity of interleukin-6, which is a chemical substance that promotes immunity and can cause depression. And St John's Wort can be used to treat menopausal depression because of the action of β-sitosterol, a mild plant hormone contained in it.
