Nutmeg is the warm baking spice in eggnog and pumpkin pie, and an old Ayurvedic and Unani remedy for the gut and for sleep. In kitchen amounts it is a food; in spoonfuls it is a poison, which is why this profile leads with safety.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
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The seed in your mustard jar was once the go-to chest plaster and digestive spice. Here's how it was used, what the research says, and why mustard plasters can burn.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
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.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A pink meadow flower that herbalists have long counted among the classic "blood purifier" herbs, often sipped as a gentle tea. Members can see how people use it, what the research does and doesn't show, and why it isn't for everyone.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
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.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
One of the oldest tree species on earth, long planted beside Buddhist temples in China and now grown on city streets across Canada. Its fan-shaped leaves became one of Europe's best-known herbal medicines for memory and circulation.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
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.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
