Clove tea: the warming cup from the Spice Islands
Cloves were once worth a fortune. Steeped whole, they make a warming, numbing-sweet cup people reach for after meals and when a tooth or throat is sore.
Cloves were once worth a fortune. Steeped whole, they make a warming, numbing-sweet cup people reach for after meals and when a tooth or throat is sore.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Live cultures for the gut: what the research shows strain by strain — from antibiotic days to IBS and colic — how to read a label, and who should check first.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A take on the morning tonic: not a full detox, just a warm, bright cup to wake up digestion and get fluid moving before the day starts. Here's how to make it and why people keep it in their routine.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Before black pepper took over, long pepper was the pepper of the ancient world — and in Ayurveda it never lost its place. Here's why Pippali is the warming spice of Trikatu, and what to know about its piperine.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Long before it was a pizza herb, oregano was one of the most-used medicinal plants of ancient Greece, written up in more than sixty Hippocratic texts. Here's the herb's story, what people still brew it for, and how the gentle leaf differs from the strong oil.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A small, very bitter cup sipped before dinner is one of Europe's oldest kitchen traditions for a slow appetite and a heavy, sluggish stomach. Here's how to brew Clif's liver-and-gallbladder bitters tonic, and why the bitter taste is the whole point.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Spearmint is the gentle, sweet mint of Moroccan tea and the herb garden — and it has become the tea women with PMOS talk about. Members can read what it's traditionally used for, the hormone research, and how to drink it well.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The grey-green kitchen herb of stuffing and brown butter has one of the longest medicinal records in Europe — "Sage the Saviour" to the medieval school of Salerno. Members can read what it has been used for, from sore throats and night sweats to memory, and how to use it well.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The cup people reach for when a meal sits heavy. Fennel seed tea is one of the few kitchen teas with a proper regulatory monograph behind it, so there are real amounts, a real steep time and clear guidance on who it suits. Members get all of it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
IBS-type discomfort is common and very personal. This guide walks through every natural option people use, from soluble fibre and peppermint oil to gut-directed hypnotherapy, with honest evidence labels and the warning signs that mean see a doctor first.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.