Flora St. John's Wort Oil Extract made with sunshine to lift your spirits to help alleviate stress, anxiety, mild depression and sleeplessness.

In the sun-drenched fields nestled among the Peleponnese mountains of Greece, there is a traditional way of making St John's Wort Oil extract. It's a way that uses time-honoured natural methods, uncompromising standards and the healing energy of the sun.

The mature golden flowers of wild grown St John's Wort plants are harvested manually in the mornings, and are submersed that day in extra virgin olive oil, cold-pressed from freshly picked olives of certified organic origin. This mixture, sealed in glass jars, is then potentized for several weeks in the intense Greek sun of midsummer.

 It is this slow, painstaking process alone which maximizes the extraction of the plant's full spectrum of active ingredients into the oil - not just one! This traditional mode of preparing St John's Wort Oil extract is recorded as early as 1618 in the first publication of the British Pharmacopoeia.

The extraordinary healing properties of this kind of St John's Wort Oil extract have been valued and praised since antiquity. It is the oil Flora is proud to offer you, and which satisfied customers and doctors recommend.

Detailed benefits:

Relaxant Helps to relieve edgy nerves due to overwork, tiredness and fatigue. Helps to return disrupted sleep patterns to normal 1 .

Nervine Tonic & Restorative St John's Wort extract is now recognized by the medical community as being effective in treating mild to moderate depression 2, 3, 4, 5.

Immune Function Current studies indicate antiviral, antibacterial and antimicrobial properties of the compounds that are oil-extracted from St John's Wort 5,6 . For the relief of a sore throat swallow a teaspoon of oil every three to four hours.

Digestive Anti-inflammatory Can be used internally to soothe ulcerated membranes, nervous bowels and gastritis.

 Topical Applications Use as a massage oil for relief from neuralgia, sciatica, muscle and joint pain and inflammation. Soothes irritated skin, bruises, mild burns and especially sunburn.

Traditionally used for dry skin, diaper rash and chafing. Antibacterial properties may reduce healing time.