St John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L)

Current use of medicinal plants for children’s diseases among mothers in Southern Romania

“…The utilization of a particular plant species to treat entirely different conditions could be attributed to the large range of active phytocompounds present in the plant, acting on various body systems. For instance, medicinal plants identified in our survey for treating a certain ailment were mentioned for dissimilar curative properties in other European countries: A. sativum, mentioned as an antiparasitic agent in our study, was found to be effective for whooping cough in Italy ( Muhe et al, 1994 ); C. carvi used as carminative for children in Southern Romania, was employed for enuresis in Italy ( Leporatti and Ghedira, 2009 ); C. majus, utilized for curing warts in our study, was reported in Poland for treating jaundice and digestive tract parasites ( Zielińska et al, 2018 ); H. perforatum, used by Romanian mothers for treating children’s liver diseases, was used in Poland for burns treatment ( Coppock and Dziwenka, 2021 ); U. dioica, popular for treating pediatric weakness and anemia in the geographic area investigated herein, was noted to be used as an antitussive in Spain ( Rigat et al, 2015 ), whereas V. tricolor , utilized as an antialergic in our study, was used for treating seborrhoea of the scalp in nursing infants in Poland ( Witkowska-Banaszczak et al, 2005 ), and as an expectorant in Ukraine ( Herasymova et al, 2022 ).…”