Scientific Name hipéricohypericum perforotum CORAZONCILLO
Other Names:
Corazoncillo, Grass of San Juan
There is a peculiar legend related to this plant: in the Age It measured, was burned in the cases in which one thought that the devil had settled to drive away it. It is common
in all Europe and the north of Asia, Africa and America. The flowery sumidad is used. It contains essential oil (pineno and sesquiterpénicos carbides). Their properties are colagogas (flavonoides), antispasmodic, sedative and antidepressing light (hiperacina), astringent, antidiarreico and anti-hemorra'gico (flobafeno). In external use he is antiseptic, healing (essential oil) and astringent (tannins). Fotosensibilizante (hiperacina), in case of insolation can produce cutaneous inflammations and of mucous.
In internal use it is used in gastroduodenales depressions, anxiety, nervousness, bronchitis, asthma, ulcers, dispepsias by bad hepático operation, nocturnal enuresis in the children, etc.
In external use for wounds, burns, ulcers, hemorrágias, etc.