Tag: Pain Relief

Grapple plant, better known around the world as devil’s claw, is a southern African medicinal herb used mainly for joint pain, back pain, and...

Goat’s foot is a creeping seaside vine with a long medicinal history that far exceeds its humble appearance. Botanically known as Ipomoea pes-caprae, it...

Ginger is one of the few herbs that feels equally at home in a kitchen, a travel bag, and a medicine cabinet. The knobby...

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...

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

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...

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

Five-leaved chaste tree, botanically known as Vitex negundo, is an aromatic shrub used across Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, and several Southeast Asian folk traditions. Its...

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

Feverfew is a small daisy-like herb in the Asteraceae family that has been used for centuries in European herbal medicine. Today, it is best...

Felon herb, better known today as comfrey, is a traditional European medicinal plant whose roots and leaves have long been used for bruises, sprains,...

Fang Feng, the dried root of Saposhnikovia divaricata, is a long-used East Asian medicinal herb best known for its role in traditional formulas for...

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

European wild ginger, Asarum europaeum, is a low evergreen woodland herb with glossy kidney-shaped leaves and a long, complicated medicinal history. Despite its common...

Ethiopian climbing onion, botanically known as Bowiea volubilis, is one of those medicinal plants that asks for real caution as well as curiosity. It...

Erythronium americanum, better known as trout lily, yellow trout lily, dogtooth violet, or adder’s tongue, is a small North American woodland herb with a...

Eastern teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens, is a low-growing evergreen shrub native to North America and better known to many people as American wintergreen or checkerberry....

Eastern cottonwood is a fast-growing North American tree best known for its sticky spring buds, aromatic resin, and long history in traditional medicine. While...

Dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)—also known as danewort—is a striking, herbal elder relative that behaves very differently from the shrub elderberries most people know. It...

Duck potato—also called broadleaf arrowhead or wapato—is a wetland plant best known for its small, starchy tubers. While it is often discussed like an...

Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), sometimes called fern-leaf dropwort, is a traditional European herb from the rose family (Rosaceae). It grows in dry grasslands and calcareous...

Drimys (Drimys winteri), often called canelo or Winter’s bark, is an evergreen tree native to the cool, wet forests of southern Chile and Argentina....

Devil’s claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) is a traditional African medicinal plant best known today for one practical goal: easing everyday musculoskeletal discomfort, especially stiff, achy...

Damak-damak Tahun (Scolopia macrophylla) is a Southeast Asian shrub or small tree known by several local names, including pokok rukam gajah and rukem laut....