Remedies

The blessed thistle plant has been given the name of “holy” or “blessed” thistle, probably due to its many medicinal properties and generally its properties against the plague. However, it …

The Asarum plant has been used since the time of the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder mentioned this plant in his writings due to its emetic properties. However, it has …

If you’re searching for sea wormwood plant benefits, the honest starting point is this: the plant’s one well-documented use is as a vermifuge — a remedy meant to expel intestinal …

The tarragon plant is aromatic and is one of the few that does not grow wild in Mediterranean countries; thus, it was not known in the classical ages. The Arabs …

Centuries ago, the wormwood plant was offered to Artemis by ancient Greeks (The Roman Diana), the goddess of fertility. Of course, its notable effects on the uterus were the main …

The pineapple plant is a knee-high tropical bromeliad, and almost everything ever claimed for it medicinally traces back to a single substance: bromelain, a mixture of protein-digesting enzymes that is …

For centuries people have reached for angelica when their stomach felt heavy, their appetite disappeared, or a cold settled in. Most of those traditional uses point the same way: digestion. …

Sweet flag (Acorus calamus) is a marsh plant whose aromatic rhizome has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic, Chinese, and European folk medicine — mostly to settle the stomach, calm …

When your stomach is unsettled, reaching for a herbal tea or a capsule is one of the oldest instincts there is — and for a couple of remedies, the science …

The leaves of the heliotrope plant follow the sun in the sky. Hence, some of its common names. The great Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author Pedanius Dioscorides recommended it …