Tag: Antioxidant

Garden sorrel is one of those herbs that sits comfortably between the kitchen and the medicine cabinet. Known botanically as Rumex acetosa, it is...

Garden cress is a fast-growing, peppery herb in the mustard family, valued both as a food and as a traditional remedy. Its tender sprouts...

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...

Furze, more widely known as gorse, is a bright yellow, strongly spined shrub with a surprisingly complex place in traditional plant use. It has...

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...

Fucus is the old herbal name most readers now meet as bladderwrack, a brown seaweed traditionally gathered from cold Atlantic coasts and used in...

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...

Fringecup, Tellima grandiflora, is a woodland perennial native to the Pacific Northwest and nearby western North America. Most people know it as a graceful...

Fringe tree, or Chionanthus virginicus, is a small North American tree with a long but somewhat forgotten place in traditional herbal medicine. Most modern...

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 sorrel, or Rumex scutatus, is a bright, lemony leaf that sits somewhere between herb, salad green, and old-world medicinal plant. In the kitchen,...

French Rose, botanically known as Rosa gallica, is one of the oldest cultivated roses in Europe and a classic medicinal flower in traditional Western...

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...

Frankincense is one of the world’s oldest medicinal resins, valued in ritual, perfumery, and traditional healing long before modern herbal products existed. In this...

Fragrant sumac, or Rhus aromatica, is a North American shrub best known for its lemon-scented leaves, bright red fruits, and longstanding place in traditional...

Foxtail millet is an ancient small-seeded cereal that has moved from traditional kitchens into modern nutrition conversations for good reason. Although it is often...

Foxnut, the seed of Euryale ferox, sits at an interesting crossroads between food and traditional medicine. It is widely known as makhana or gorgon...

Four-leaf Clover is best known as a symbol of luck, but botanically it belongs to Trifolium repens, the same species as white clover. The...