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St. John's Wort - Traditional Uses
- Greek and Roman medical sources report the use of St. John's Wort as a topical treatment for healing wounds and for treating kidney stones, sciatica, menstrual problems, and snakebites.
- During the Middle Ages, St. John's Wort was prescribed for diarrhea, fever, gout, and rabies.
- In North America, the Cherokee used St. John's Wort for fever, diarrhea, snakebite, skin and stomach conditions, and to induce abortions.
- Physicians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used St. John's Wort to treat a nervous condition in women.
