“…Plants belonging to the genus Hypericum (Guttiferae) are well known for their use as antidepressant (Harrer & Schulz 1994;Linde et al, 1996;Vorbach et al, 1997;Wheatly, 1997;Volz, 1997), analgesic (Apaydin et al, 1999), spasmolytic (Jakovljevie et al, 2000;Viana et al, 2007), among other applications (Nepomuceno et al, 2005;Cordeiro et al, 2005;Fritz et al, 2007).…”