Find a plant by how you feel

Arnica

Arnica montana

A mountain daisy for bruises — a skin plant, never a tea.

joint pain

Autumn crocus

Colchicum autumnale

Naked ladies — a lilac autumn flower without leaves, deadly, and the saffron lookalike this folio exists to name.

joint pain

Birch

Betula pendula

A mild, green, slightly wintergreen spring cup from young birch leaf — not a methyl-salicylate binge.

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Black cohosh

Actaea racemosa

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

joint pain

Comfrey

Symphytum officinale

Knitbone — a legendary wound-and-bone poultice whose internal use is no longer defensible.

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Devil’s claw

Harpagophytum procumbens

A Kalahari trailer whose hooked fruit named it, and whose tuber is a bitter joint folklore — buy farmed, do not strip the desert.

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Frankincense

Boswellia sacra

The tears of a desert tree — temple smoke, and a boswellic-acid joint folklore in a resin that should be farmed, not stripped.

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Meadowsweet

Filipendula ulmaria

Creamy meadow plumes that smell of almond and aspirin — a stomach-kinder willow analog.

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Monkshood

Aconitum napellus

Hooded indigo flowers — beautiful, and poisonous to the touch in sap, let alone as a tea.

joint pain

Nettle

Urtica dioica

The mineral-rich weed that stings, then feeds — spring tonic, hay-fever leaf, prostate root.

joint pain

Turmeric

Curcuma longa

Golden rhizome of South Asian cooking, taken for stiff joints and low-grade inflammation.

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White willow

Salix alba

Riverside tree whose bitter bark is the folk parent of aspirin, used for dull inflammatory pain.

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Wintergreen

Gaultheria procumbens

A low eastern woodland evergreen that tastes of toothpaste — a salicylate leaf, and an oil that is a poison-control regular.

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