Wormwood Herb (Artemisia absinthium): The Ultimate Bitter Tonic
Wormwood — Artemisia absinthium — is one of the most intensely bitter herbs in the entire Western materia medica, its name absinthium deriving from the Greek…
Wormwood — Artemisia absinthium — is one of the most intensely bitter herbs in the entire Western materia medica, its name absinthium deriving from the Greek…
Vervain — Verbena officinalis — holds one of the most ancient and reverent places in the history of European herbal medicine. Used in Greek…
Schisandra — Schisandra chinensis — is one of the most remarkable herbs in the Chinese materia medica, known as Wu Wei Zi (“Five Taste Fruit”) because…
Reishi — Ganoderma lucidum — is the most revered medicinal mushroom in East Asian medicine, known in Chinese as Ling Zhi (“Spirit Plant”) and in Japanese…
Punarnava — Boerhavia diffusa — carries a name that translates beautifully from Sanskrit as “she who renews” or “the one that brings back to…
Oregon Grape Root — Berberis aquifolium (also classified as Mahonia aquifolium) — is the North American counterpart to European Barberry, sharing much of the same…
Holy Thistle — Carbenia benedicta (more commonly known as Cnicus benedictus, Blessed Thistle) — is a spiny annual herb of Mediterranean origin, grown widely in…
Guduchi — Tinospora cordifolia — known in the Herba Naturalle herb index as “Gulna,” is one of the three most important Ayurvedic rasayanas (rejuvenative…
Gentian — Gentiana lutea — is the most bitter herb in the Western materia medica. Its bitterness index is extraordinary — solutions of gentian…