Pumpkin seed is one of the few everyday foods with an official European herbal monograph, for men's night-time bathroom trips and an overactive bladder. Members get the full profile: every traditional use, the large prostate trial and what it really showed, the official amounts, and who should check first.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Pumpkin seeds were an official worm remedy in US pharmacy books for over 70 years, and today they're one of the most-shared "parasite cleanse" foods online. Members get the full entry: where the tradition comes from, the one human tapeworm study (and why it can't be copied at home), typical food amounts, and who should be careful.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The small brown or golden seed behind linseed tea, old-fashioned linseed poultices and today's breakfast sprinkle. Flax has been a food, fibre and folk remedy for thousands of years and is now one of the better-studied seeds for the bowels and blood pressure.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The kitchen herb behind many old-fashioned cough syrups and mouthwashes. Thyme has been used for chesty coughs, sore throats and digestion since ancient Greece, and it's still an approved traditional cough remedy in Europe.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Those small black seeds you scoop out of a papaya have a long folk reputation as a worm remedy, and they've lately become a social-media "parasite cleanse". Members get the full entry: where the idea comes from, the two small studies in children behind it, typical amounts used in research, and the fertility and pregnancy cautions to know first.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The bright orange "pot marigold" of cottage gardens, used for centuries to soothe sore skin and dress wounds. Today it's one of the best-known herbs in creams, salves and baby balms.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The tea plant was first grown in China thousands of years ago, and a Japanese monk wrote in 1211 that tea was a medicine for long life. Today green tea is one of the world's most-loved daily drinks, and its leaf and extracts are some of the most-studied plant compounds there are.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A knobbly green gourd that is everyday food from India and China to the Philippines, and the famously bitter "cerasee" bush tea of Jamaica and the Caribbean. Few plants are used in as many traditional kitchens and medicine systems at once.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A small golden seed that has flavoured curries and fed nursing mothers for thousands of years, from ancient Egypt to India. Its maple-syrup aroma is the same one that famously lingers on the skin of people who take it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The fragrant resin of the frankincense tree, burned in temples for thousands of years and used in Ayurveda for stiff, aching joints. Today it's one of the most-studied herbs for joint comfort.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
