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Mullein: The Lung Herb of Ancient Standing

Verbascum thapsus is one of the most visually distinctive plants in the British and European landscape: a tall, stately biennial that sends up a rosette of large, woolly grey-green leaves in its first year, then a tall spike of yellow flowers up to two meters high in...

Elecampane: The Root of Ancient Respiratory Medicine

Inula helenium is one of those plants with a name worth knowing: helenium refers to Helen of Troy, according to the legend that the herb sprang from her tears when she was taken from Sparta. Whatever the truth of that legend, it reflects the plant’s ancient...

Herbs and the Ancestors: Plant Medicine at the Year’s End

There is something particular about the dark months that invites this kind of reflection. When the garden is bare and the light is thin and the year is turning toward its end, the fact that you are doing what human beings have always done at this season, reaching for...

Frankincense: The Sacred Resin and Its Medicine

Boswellia sacra and its relatives (Boswellia serrata, Boswellia carterii) produce the resinous sap that, when it dries in the air, becomes the substance known as frankincense or olibanum: hard, golden tears of resin that burn with a distinctive, complex fragrance that...

The Herbs of Yule: A Winter Solstice Herbal Tradition

The winter solstice (Yule in the Norse tradition, Midwinter in the Anglo-Saxon, Alban Arthan in Druidic tradition) falls around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the longest night and the return of the light. The celebration of this astronomical event...

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