St John’s Wort is a flowering plant and is, actually, the crowning plant of the Hypericaceae family, with the family being named after St. John’s Wort’s scientific name. St John’s Wort is native to temperate parts of Europe and Asia but has spread to many temperate regions worldwide.
The usage of St John’s Wort began in Ancient Roman times and has been discovered as being a key ingredient for health, which has been used to treat a wide variety of illnesses, of the time. Indeed, the red oily extract of St John’s Wort has been used to dress wounds for millennia and even received its given name due to its popular usage by the Knights Hospitaller’s detachment known as the Order of St John.
In terms of the production of our St John’s Wort supplements, we source only from cultivated and sustainable farms and never from wild habitats. Each tablet contains 333mg St John’s Wort Extract Whole herb equivalent.