Tag: Anti-inflammatory

Fagonia, usually identified here as Fagonia cretica, is a thorny desert herb with a long reputation in Ayurveda, Unani, and regional folk medicine. It...

Frangipani (Plumeria rubra) is a tropical flowering tree widely recognized for its fragrant blossoms and ornamental beauty. Native to Central America but now cultivated...

Chickweed (Stellaria media) is one of those humble plants that quietly earns a permanent place in traditional herbalism: soft, green, and often growing at...

Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis)—often called Huanglian in traditional East Asian medicine—is a very bitter rhizome valued for its “cooling” and cleansing character. In modern...

Corydalis (Corydalis yanhusuo) is a traditional Asian herb best known for its long history of use in pain support—especially for discomfort linked to tension,...

Danshen—also known as red sage or Chinese sage—is the dried root of Salvia miltiorrhiza, a plant with a long history in traditional East Asian...

Devil’s club is a striking, thorny shrub native to the damp forests of the Pacific Northwest. For many Indigenous communities, it has long been...

Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis), often called Chinese skullcap or huang qin, is a root-based herb used for centuries in East Asian herbal traditions. Today...

Belleric myrobalan (Terminalia bellirica) is the dried fruit of a large tree native to South and Southeast Asia. In Ayurveda it is commonly known...

Black cardamom is a bold, smoky spice made from the dried seed pods of Amomum subulatum, a ginger-family plant traditionally cultivated in parts of...

Bupleurum (Bupleurum chinense), often called chai hu or radix bupleuri, is a traditional East Asian herbal root best known for its role in classic...

Artemisia annua—often called sweet wormwood or qing hao—is a fragrant Artemisia species best known as the original plant source of artemisinin, the breakthrough compound...

Ashoka (Saraca asoca) is one of Ayurveda’s best-known botanicals for women’s reproductive health, traditionally used to support cycle regularity, uterine comfort, and balanced menstrual...

Fuller’s Teasel, Dipsacus sativus, is an unusual herb because it is known as much for craftsmanship as for medicine. For centuries, its dried flower...

Fuki, or Petasites japonicus, is one of those plants that makes more sense when you see it as both food and medicine rather than...

Frost grape, or Vitis vulpina, is a wild North American grape valued more as a functional food and traditional folk plant than as a...

Frogfruit, botanically known as Phyla nodiflora, is a creeping herb that grows close to the ground in warm, moist places and has a long...

Fringed spiderflower, botanically known as Cleome rutidosperma, is a small flowering herb that grows widely in tropical and subtropical regions and is often treated...

Fringed pink, Dianthus superbus, is a striking perennial known for its deeply cut, fragrant petals, but in traditional East Asian medicine it is valued...

Fringe sage, botanically known as Artemisia frigida, is a small silvery Artemisia with a long record of use in steppe and northern herbal traditions,...

French tarragon is one of those herbs that people know first for flavor and only later for its medicinal side. Best known as the...

French marigold, Tagetes patula, is one of those plants people often recognize before they truly know. It is familiar in borders and containers for...

French honeysuckle, botanically known as Hedysarum coronarium, is a Mediterranean legume better known to farmers as sulla than to herbal shoppers as a standard...

Freedom Flower, Leonotis leonurus, is a striking member of the mint family best known for its bright orange whorled flowers and its long history...