Long before the pharmacy aisle, the onion was the family medicine chest: sliced into honey for a night cough, warmed into a chest poultice, eaten raw for the heart. Here’s the story of the humblest remedy in the kitchen.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
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A small woodland plant of eastern North America with a bright-yellow root, used by Cherokee, Iroquois and other Indigenous nations for sore eyes, wounds and as a yellow dye. It became one of the best-known remedies of 19th-century herbal medicine, and is now so heavily harvested that it's a protected, at-risk species, so where it comes from matters.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Uva ursi, or bearberry, is one of the best-known traditional bladder herbs, and one with the strictest limits. Here is its history from Welsh physicians to kinnikinnick, what the EU monograph and a 382-woman trial say, the one-week amounts, and who should not use it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Sage tea for sweating, a baking-soda paste, a greener plate, cotton instead of polyester: people have been finding their own ways to stay fresh for as long as there have been warm days. Here's the whole toolkit, old and new.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A small creeping plant from the carrot family, prized in Ayurveda as a "medhya rasayana", a tonic for the mind, and across Asia for skin, wounds and longevity. Sri Lankan tradition held that eating the leaves helped people live longer.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Mullein is the tall, velvety roadside plant that peoples from Spain to Turkey to the Canadian Interior have turned to for tight, irritated chests. Members can read every traditional use, how its soothing compounds are believed to work, and what the small body of research shows.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Bael is a hard-shelled fruit from a tree sacred in India, and its unripe pulp is one of Ayurveda's best-known standbys for loose stools. Here's what tradition and research say, and why unripe and ripe fruit are used so differently.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
