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A current update on phytochemistry, pharmacology and herb–drug interactions of Hypericum perforatum

Phytochemistry Reviews, ISSN: 1572-980X, Vol: 16, Issue: 4, Page: 725-744
2017
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  • 104
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  • Citations
    43
    • Citation Indexes
      43
  • Captures
    104
  • Social Media
    1
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      1
      • Facebook
        1

Review Description

Hypericum perforatum L. is an ethnomedicine with a popular remedial legacy; especially of antidepressant and wound healing properties. Rigorous preclinical and clinical research conducted in last sesqui-decade has revealed newer facets of its therapeutic activities against psychiatric, metabolic and neoplastic disorders. Most of such curative effects are imparted synergistically by hypericin, hyperforin and flavonoids; but their action mechanisms remain ambiguous. Concomitant administration of St. John’s Wort formulation and cytochrome P450 substrate drug is limited by the episodes of herb–drug interactions; nevertheless, adverse drug reaction rate of H. perforatum remains only 2%. In present review, we aim to highlight the ‘evidence-based’ therapeutic potential of aforementioned phytopharmaceutical, which would accelerate the contemporary pharmaceutical development of this traditional phytomedicine.

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