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Elderflower: From Spring Blossom to Medicine Cabinet

The elder tree (Sambucus nigra) is almost entirely useful from root to berry tip. Most people know the berry from winter immune supplements, but fewer know the flower, which has its own distinct and valuable medicinal character. The flower and the berry come from the...

Ashwagandha: The Night Shade That Calms

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) is one of those herbs that has moved from traditional medicine obscurity to mainstream supplement shelves in the span of about a decade, which means there is now a great deal of information available about it, some of it accurate and...

Tulsi (Holy Basil): The Sacred Adaptogen

Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum, also called Ocimum sanctum and known in English as holy basil) is one of the most unusual plants in herbalism because it occupies two entirely different worlds simultaneously without contradiction. In the Hindu tradition, it is the most...

How to Make a Healing Herbal Broth

Herbal broth is the preparation that lives most naturally at the intersection of cooking and medicine. It is soup’s more deliberate ancestor: a slow-simmered liquid that extracts the mineral, medicinal, and nutritive properties of both food ingredients and...

Herbs for Focus and Mental Clarity

Every traditional medicine system that has developed a concept of cognitive health has also developed plants for supporting it. The Ayurvedic medhya rasayanas (herbs specifically for the mind and nervous system) are a formal category with thousands of years of use...

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