Tag: Liver and Gallbladder

Radish is one of those foods people often treat as a garnish, even though it has a much bigger story. Botanically known as Raphanus...

Radicchio is the deep red, white-veined, pleasantly bitter leaf many people know from Italian salads, but it is more than a decorative vegetable. It...

Milk thistle, or Silybum marianum, is a spiny purple-flowered plant best known for one reason: its long history as a liver-focused herb. Modern interest...

Liverwort, better known botanically as Hepatica nobilis, is a small spring woodland plant with a long medicinal history and an equally long trail of...

Kutki, also called Picrorhiza kurroa, is a bitter alpine herb used for centuries in Ayurveda, especially for liver support, sluggish digestion, and occasional constipation....

Holy thistle is one of the older common names for Silybum marianum, the plant more widely known today as milk thistle. It is a...

Hare's ear, best known in herbal practice as Bupleurum falcatum, is a traditional medicinal root with a long history in East Asian herbal systems....

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...

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

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

Blue flag (Iris versicolor) is a wetland iris native to North America whose rhizome (underground stem) has a long history in Western herbal practice....

Black root (Veronicastrum virginicum) is a tall, elegant North American wildflower whose medicinal use centers on its dark rhizome and rootlets. In traditional Western...