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Fennel: The Digestive Herb of Ancient Medicine

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is one of the most continuously used medicinal plants in human history. It appears in the ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus (one of the oldest medical documents in existence), in the Greek medical texts of Hippocrates and Dioscorides, in...

Herbs in the Norse Tradition: A Brief Exploration

The Norse and Northern Germanic herbal tradition is one of the least well-documented and most underexplored in English-language herbal literature, which makes it something of a hidden archive for those willing to look. What survives comes through a few key sources:...

Herbs for Grief and Transition: The Plant Tradition of Support

Grief is one of the most profound and most physically demanding experiences a human body goes through. Contemporary medicine increasingly recognizes that prolonged grief has measurable effects on the immune system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system:...

The Herbs of Samhain: Plants of the Threshold

Samhain (pronounced approximately SAH-win in Irish, or SAH-ven in Scots Gaelic) falls on October 31 and is the most significant of the four Celtic fire festivals in the folk calendar. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter: the dark half of...

Herbal Bitters: The Lost Art of the Digestive Tonic

Bitters have a history that runs through virtually every culture that has developed a sophisticated relationship with plants and with the digestive system. The ancient Greeks valued bitter plants for stimulating digestion. Ayurveda recognizes bitter as one of the six...

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