Tag: Antimicrobial

Globe thistle, or Echinops ritro, is a spiny, blue-flowered herb best known as an ornamental plant, yet it also has a quieter medicinal history...

Torch ginger, also called ginger torch and known botanically as Etlingera elatior, is a striking tropical plant in the ginger family valued as both...

Ginger mint is a lively, aromatic herb that combines the cooling brightness people expect from mint with a warmer, spicier edge that explains its...

Ginger lily, botanically known as Hedychium coronarium, is a fragrant flowering plant in the ginger family that sits at an interesting crossroads between ornamental...

Giant milkweed, Calotropis gigantea, is a striking shrub with silvery green leaves, waxy lavender-white flowers, and a thick milky latex that immediately signals it...

Giant fennel is a striking Mediterranean herb, but it is not the gentle kitchen fennel many readers expect. Known botanically as Ferula communis, it...

Germander, most often referring to Teucrium chamaedrys or wall germander, is a small aromatic herb in the mint family that has a long history...

Garlic mustard is a sharp, aromatic herb that blurs the line between wild food and traditional medicine. Botanically known as Alliaria petiolata, it is...

Garlic chives, also called Chinese chives, Asian chives, or Allium tuberosum, sit in an interesting space between food and herb. They are used daily...

Garlic is one of the rare herbs that comfortably belongs in both the kitchen and the medicine cabinet. The bulb of Allium sativum has...

Garden thyme is one of those rare herbs that sits comfortably in both the kitchen and the medicine cabinet. Known botanically as Thymus vulgaris,...

Garden rue is one of those herbs that asks for a more careful reading than its long folk history might suggest. Ruta graveolens has...

Gambir, also written as gambier, is a concentrated herbal extract made mainly from the leaves and young twigs of Uncaria gambir, a climbing shrub...

Gale, better known as sweet gale or bog myrtle, is an aromatic shrub that grows in cool, wet landscapes across northern Europe, parts of...

Galbanum is an aromatic oleo-gum-resin obtained from Ferula species, most often discussed under Ferula galbaniflua and closely related Ferula gummosa. It has a long...

Galangal is a fragrant rhizome from the ginger family, prized in Southeast Asian cooking and traditional herbal practice for its sharp, citrusy warmth and...

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

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

Four O' Clock, better known to botanists as Mirabilis jalapa, is one of those plants that sits at an interesting crossroads: it is a...

Forsythia suspensa is best known to herbal practitioners as the source of forsythia fruit, a traditional East Asian remedy used for short-term support during...

Forked-leaf sundew, or Drosera binata, is a striking carnivorous plant with a long herbal reputation and a much more modest modern evidence base. In...

Fluellen, botanically known as Kickxia elatine, is a small trailing field herb in the plantain family that has lived for a long time at...

Flowering fern, better known botanically as Osmunda regalis and often called royal fern, is a striking wetland fern with a long but uneven medicinal...