Find a plant by how you feel

Anise

Pimpinella anisum

The licorice seed of Mediterranean baking — a carminative kitchen spice, not the toxic Japanese lookalike of star anise.

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Black cohosh

Actaea racemosa

A woodland candle whose rhizome is a menopause herb with a real liver signal on extracts.

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Caraway

Carum carvi

The rye-bread seed — a biennial umbel whose crescent spice is the carminative of Central Europe.

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Catnip

Nepeta cataria

A grey mint that sends cats sideways and, as a mild tea, settles people the other direction.

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Chamomile

Matricaria chamomilla

A small daisy used for centuries as an evening tea for restlessness and mild digestive cramp.

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Chaste tree

Vitex agnus-castus

A lilac-like Mediterranean shrub whose peppercorn berries are a cycle herb with a hormone reputation.

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Cramp bark

Viburnum opulus

A hedge viburnum whose bark is the old antispasmodic of European midwives — a cramp folklore, not a candy.

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Cumin

Cuminum cyminum

The warm, earthy seed of every chili and curry — a carminative kitchen spice with a long gut record.

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Dill

Anethum graveolens

Feathery kitchen green and a caraway-cousin seed — the pickle herb, also an after-dinner chew.

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Evening primrose

Oenothera biennis

A dusk-opening yellow native whose seed oil is taken for skin and cycle folklore.

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Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Anise-sweet seed for gas, colic folklore, and after-dinner breath.

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Garden peony

Paeonia lactiflora

The late-spring shrub of buds that ants tend — a long-lived perennial whose petals, not its root, are the only kitchen note here.

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Ginger

Zingiber officinale

A tropical rhizome for queasy stomachs, cold hands, and dull inflammatory ache.

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Lady’s mantle

Alchemilla vulgaris

Dew-catching scalloped leaves and a chartreuse foam of flowers — a European astringent of the old women’s shelf.

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Motherwort

Leonurus cardiaca

A bitter mint for a racing heart and a spinning mind — not a culinary leaf.

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Mugwort

Artemisia vulgaris

The roadside Artemisia of dream pillows and roast goose — a bitter with a long folklore and a thujone limit.

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Raspberry leaf

Rubus idaeus

The cane you grow for fruit — the leaf is an astringent tea with a long midwifery folklore.

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Summer savory

Satureja hortensis

The bean herb — a peppery summer mint that German and Balkan kitchens still put in the pot with pulses.

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Winter savory

Satureja montana

The tougher bean herb — a shrubby perennial savory that winters over and still belongs in the pot with pulses.

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Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Achilles' woundwort — a bitter, aromatic styptic for fevers, cuts, and heavy moons.

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