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.
11 plates for cramps
Black cohosh
Actaea racemosa
A woodland candle whose rhizome is a menopause herb with a real liver signal on extracts.
cramps
1/1OpenCaution
Catnip
Nepeta cataria
A grey mint that sends cats sideways and, as a mild tea, settles people the other direction.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Chamomile
Matricaria chamomilla
A small daisy used for centuries as an evening tea for restlessness and mild digestive cramp.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Chaste tree
Vitex agnus-castus
A lilac-like Mediterranean shrub whose peppercorn berries are a cycle herb with a hormone reputation.
cramps
1/1OpenCaution
Dill
Anethum graveolens
Feathery kitchen green and a caraway-cousin seed — the pickle herb, also an after-dinner chew.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Evening primrose
Oenothera biennis
A dusk-opening yellow native whose seed oil is taken for skin and cycle folklore.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Anise-sweet seed for gas, colic folklore, and after-dinner breath.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Ginger
Zingiber officinale
A tropical rhizome for queasy stomachs, cold hands, and dull inflammatory ache.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Motherwort
Leonurus cardiaca
A bitter mint for a racing heart and a spinning mind — not a culinary leaf.
cramps
1/1OpenCaution
Raspberry leaf
Rubus idaeus
The cane you grow for fruit — the leaf is an astringent tea with a long midwifery folklore.
cramps
1/1OpenGentle
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Achilles' woundwort — a bitter, aromatic styptic for fevers, cuts, and heavy moons.
cramps
1/1OpenCaution
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