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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...

Milk Thistle: The Herb That Looks After the Liver

Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is the herb that most people who have been told their liver is under strain will eventually be directed toward, and for good reason. It is one of the most clinically studied plants in herbal medicine, and the research on its...

Rhodiola: The Arctic Adaptogen

Rhodiola rosea grows in the high-altitude arctic and sub-arctic regions of Siberia, Scandinavia, and the mountainous parts of Central Asia. It is a plant that has survived and thrived in some of the harshest conditions on earth: extreme cold, thin air, rocky soil with...

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