Cancer hypericum

The herb St. Johns wort (Hypericum peforatum) has been used to help detect intestinal cancer during x-ray procedures using barium-watCT enemas. It serves to sharpen the photographic image. 

Also mentioned in the Heinerman reference is the use of an extract of St. Johns wort Hypericum perforatum) for hopeless cancer cases. Mention is made of several cases of cancer cured using Chaparral tea Larrea divaricata). 

In 2003, the methanol extracts of the aerial parts (above ground part) of Hypericum patulum were tested for their in vitro cytotoxicity on the human epidermoid eaneer eells (Hep-2), rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) cell lines and Vero eell lines whieh are derived from the kidney of an African green monkey, and their antitumour aetivity against Dalton s lymphoma ascites (DLA) cell lines and human epidermoid cancer cells (Hep-2) by a group of J.S.S. College of... 

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