Black walnut hull, wormwood and clove have been paired together for parasite cleansing for decades. Here’s what each one is traditionally used for, how people approach a cleanse, and the safety points most guides skip.
Lead, mercury, cadmium, aluminum and arsenic show up in places most people never think to look. Here’s where they hide, the signs people associate with buildup, and the natural binders traditionally used.
Your liver handles hundreds of jobs a day and rarely complains loudly. Here are the quiet signs it may be overloaded, and the herbs used for centuries to support it.
Feeling worse on a detox usually isn’t the toxins leaving. It’s the doors being shut. Here’s the order traditional practitioners follow, and why it matters.
A thorny vine from the Amazon rainforest, named for the curved hooks on its stems, that Peruvian peoples have boiled into a bitter bark tea for generations. Here's what tradition and research say about it, and who should be careful.
A small Florida palm whose dark berries were food for the Seminole and Ais peoples and became the best-known men's herb in Europe and North America. Here's what tradition and research say about it, and who should be careful.
Berberine is the bright-yellow compound behind some of the oldest bitter remedies in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, from Indian barberry to Chinese goldthread. Today it is one of the most-studied plant compounds for metabolic health, and one of the most interaction-prone, so it is worth reading the safety section first.
One of the oldest spices in the world, cinnamon was traded from Asia to Egypt as far back as 2000 BC. Ayurveda, Chinese medicine and Persian medicine all use it as a warming herb for digestion, circulation and the womb, and modern researchers are studying it for period pain and metabolic health.
A striped, fan-shaped mushroom that grows on fallen logs across North America, Europe and Asia, turkey tail is one of the most studied medicinal mushrooms in the world. It has a long history in Chinese and Japanese medicine as an immune tonic, and its extracts are used in hospitals in Japan and China.
Lion's mane is the shaggy white "monkey head" mushroom of Chinese and Japanese tradition, eaten as a delicacy and used for centuries to support the stomach and, more recently, memory and mood. Here's what tradition says, what the early research shows, and who should be careful with it.
