Tag: Digestive Aid

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...

Forest Pepper, botanically known as Piper sylvaticum, is a lesser-known pepper vine from South and Southeast Asia that sits at an interesting crossroads between...

Florence fennel is the vegetable form of fennel most people recognize by its pale, layered, bulb-like base, crisp stalks, and feathery fronds. Botanically, it...

Flixweed, Descurainia sophia, is a slender annual herb best known for its tiny reddish-brown seeds, which have been used for centuries in Persian, Central...

Flax, or Linum usitatissimum, is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world, valued both for its fibers and for its nutrient-dense seeds....

Flame of the Forest, botanically known as Butea monosperma, is one of South Asia’s most recognizable medicinal trees. Its bright orange-red flowers have made...

Fitweed, botanically known as Eryngium foetidum, is a tropical herb better known in many kitchens as culantro, long coriander, or sawtooth coriander. It is...

Finocchio, better known in English as fennel, is one of those herbs that sits comfortably between kitchen and clinic. Its crisp bulb is a...

Fingerroot is a slender, aromatic rhizome from the ginger family that is widely used in Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, and other Southeast Asian cuisines. Botanically...

Filipendula ulmaria, better known in many herbal traditions as meadowsweet, is a fragrant flowering plant in the rose family with a long history of...

Field mint, Mentha arvensis, is a fragrant member of the mint family best known for its cooling scent, digestive tradition, and role as a...

Field garlic, Allium oleraceum, is a wild, bulb-forming member of the onion and garlic family that has long been valued more as a seasonal...

Fever Root, botanically known as Triosteum perfoliatum, is a traditional North American medicinal plant with a much older reputation than modern evidence base. Historical...

Fever grass, better known internationally as lemongrass, is the fragrant leaf of Cymbopogon citratus, a tropical grass used both as a culinary herb and...

Fenugreek is a fragrant culinary and medicinal herb whose seeds and leaves have been used for centuries across the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle...

Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, is one of those herbs that comfortably bridges the kitchen and the medicine cabinet. Its feathery leaves, crisp bulb, and fragrant...

False heather, botanically known as Cuphea hyssopifolia, is a small flowering shrub best known as an ornamental plant, especially in warm gardens and containers....

False cardamom, Alpinia mutica, is an aromatic member of the ginger family that is valued more in regional traditional practice and botanical circles than...

False Ashoka, botanically known as Monoon longifolium and often listed in older research as Polyalthia longifolia, is an evergreen tree best known as an...

False aloe, usually identified botanically as Manfreda virginica, is a North American perennial that looks somewhat like aloe but belongs to the agave group...

False acacia, better known botanically as Robinia pseudoacacia and commonly called black locust, is a fragrant flowering tree with a complicated herbal reputation. Its...

Evodia, best known in traditional East Asian medicine as Wu Zhu Yu, is the dried nearly ripe fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa, a plant now...

Everlast, better known botanically as Helichrysum arenarium and often called sandy everlasting, is a bright yellow flowering herb with a long history in European...

Evergreen huckleberry, Vaccinium ovatum, is a glossy-leaved coastal shrub native to the Pacific Northwest and northern California, prized for its small dark berries, year-round...