Bacopa is the creeping wetland herb Ayurveda has prized for centuries as a "medhya" tonic for memory and the mind, and one of the most-studied memory herbs today. Members get the full profile: every traditional use, what the trials really showed, the official amounts, and the side effects and drug interactions to know first.
Mimosa pudica, the "sensitive plant" whose leaves fold shut when touched, has become one of the most talked-about parasite-cleanse seeds online. Members get the full entry: its Ayurvedic and folk history, what the lab studies do and don't show, what labels list, and the safety gaps to know before trying it.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
