ENTER CODEX

Rose: The Herb of the Heart in Every Tradition

Rosa (various species, most commonly Rosa gallica, Rosa canina, and Rosa damascena in herbal practice) is one of the most universally present herbs in human culture, and its consistent association with the heart, with love, with grief, and with the emotional life is...

Passionflower: Beauty, Anxiety, and the Sleep Connection

Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is one of those herbs that manages to be both visually extraordinary and medicinally significant. The flowers are among the most complex and architecturally remarkable in the plant world: intricate structures that appear almost...

Plantain: The Weedy Little Healer in Your Lawn

Plantago major (broadleaf plantain) and Plantago lanceolata (narrow-leaf or ribwort plantain) are two of the most common and most universally overlooked medicinal plants in the temperate world. They grow in lawns, between pavement cracks, at path edges, and in the...

Lavender: The Herb That Almost Everyone Loves

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia, true or English lavender) is probably the herb most people encounter in their everyday life without thinking of it as medicine. The sachet in the drawer, the pillow spray, the bath product: lavender’s scent is everywhere, and...

Valerian: An Honest Look at the Great Sleep Herb

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) has been used as a sleep and anxiety herb in European medicine for at least two thousand years. Hippocrates used it. Dioscorides described it in his materia medica. The medieval herbalists relied on it. It is one of the most...

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