Saint Johnswort Cautions

Contraindications:
"Hypericum has MAO type A inhibition effects, although moderate, and should be
   avoided wherever pharmaceutically appropriate. Although it has a reputation for
causing potential photo-sensitization, with skin eruptions and hives being possible
side effects when coming in contact with lots of sunlight, this problem is largely
sham. I have encountered one person with a sun/skin reaction--a man with very
white skin, and jet black hair, what�s called Black Irish in some quarters. He took
too much of the tincture--a compulsive amount, actually. Moreover, he had a long
history of depression, really needed medical counseling and treatment, not
Hypericum, and spent a week fly-fishing at 9,000 feet while gargling the tincture.
   And in spite of all this, he only had a moderate and short-lived skin reaction.
   The FDA and the antiquack brigades from the right wing of the medical
establishment have tried from time to time to prevent sales of Hypericum
preparations, since the plant, eaten in large quantities by cattle with white albino
patches, has caused them to get skin lesions. German physicians, when using
Hypericum injections, are told to keep the patient out of direct sunlight as a
precaution, but there is no evidence that human reactions have occurred; the
precautions are based on the indications of grazing animals."    Ref. B p.156