Complaint drawer

What is the body asking for?

Type a complaint — cough, sleep, skin — or tap chips. Matching plates and cups rise by how many of those traditional uses they carry. A folk index, not a diagnosis.

10 plates for cold

Cinnamon
Cinnamomum verum
The inner bark that built a trade — blood-sugar folklore, a kitchen spice, and a tropical tree.
cold
1/1OpenCaution
Dog rose
Rosa canina
The hedgerow rose — hips for winter vitamin C, petals for a cooling, fragrant cup.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Elderberry
Sambucus nigra
Dark berries cooked into syrup at the first winter cough — never eaten raw.
cold
1/1OpenCaution
Garlic
Allium sativum
The original kitchen antimicrobial — crushed raw for punch, roasted for daily food medicine.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Goldenseal
Hydrastis canadensis
A threatened woodland root, bitter and berberine-yellow — not an everyday immune tonic.
cold
1/1RegulatedCaution
Lemongrass
Cymbopogon citratus
A tropical clump that puts lemon in soup — fever-and-digestion folklore with a wok pedigree.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Linden
Tilia cordata
Heart-shaped leaves and a honey-bract blossom — the classic European calm-and-cold tea.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Purple coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Prairie coneflower taken at the first scratch of a cold — immune-modulating, not a daily tonic.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Turkey tail
Trametes versicolor
Zoned fans on dead wood — the best-studied medicinal polypore for immune support beside treatment, not instead of it.
cold
1/1OpenGentle
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Achilles' woundwort — a bitter, aromatic styptic for fevers, cuts, and heavy moons.
cold
1/1OpenCaution

Cups for the same complaint

What is the body asking for?

Medicinal teas