Tag: Digestive Aid

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

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

Garden sage is one of those herbs that feels familiar in the kitchen yet far more complex once you look closely. Best known as...

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

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...

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...

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...

Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis, is a delicate, gray-green herb with a long history in European herbal medicine, especially for digestive discomfort, sluggish bile flow, and...

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...

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...

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 lavender, the aromatic Mediterranean herb known botanically as Lavandula stoechas, is one of the most visually distinctive lavenders, with compact flower heads topped...

Fraxinella, better known to botanists as Dictamnus albus, is one of those herbs that sits at the border between fascination and caution. It is...

Fragrant bedstraw, better known in many herbal traditions as sweet woodruff, is a shade-loving woodland herb valued as much for its aroma as for...

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...