Remedies

The carob tree has been cultivated as forage for thousands of years in all Mediterranean countries; however, its medicinal properties were only discovered some decades ago. Healing Properties and Indications …

The bladder senna plant (Colutea arborescens) is a Mediterranean shrub with puffy, balloon-like seed pods that has wandered in and out of folk medicine for centuries, mostly as a mild …

If you came here looking for the flower that flavors beer, pause before you touch anything. The name “wild hops plant” gets attached to two completely unrelated vines, and one …

Jalap plant root works. That is exactly the problem. The dried tuber of Ipomoea purga is one of the most forceful plant purgatives ever brought into European medicine, and the …

Johan Kunzle wrote about the hedge bindweed plant: “We have to give Thanks to God since He literally put at our feet such a precious remedy as this.” Healing Properties …

Cassia fistula — also known as the golden shower tree, Indian laburnum, or aragvadha in Ayurveda — is a tropical legume whose long, brown seed pods contain a sticky black …

If you want the real story on chestnut benefits and side effects, it helps to separate what good evidence supports from what tradition simply repeats. Chestnuts (Castanea sativa and related …

Ancient authors did not know the medicinal properties of the black alder tree. Saint Hildegard, a German St. Benedict abbess of the 12th century, was the first to write about …

The leaves of the damiana plant, which have a pleasant aromatic flavor, were used in Mexico as a substitute for tea and enjoyed deserved fame as an aphrodisiac. Damiana Plant …

If you’ve come across water lily in an herbal remedy list, it’s probably filed under “calming” or, more specifically, as something used historically to lower sexual desire rather than raise …