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.
7 plates for joint pain
Black cohosh
Actaea racemosa
A woodland candle whose rhizome is a menopause herb with a real liver signal on extracts.
joint pain
1/1OpenCaution
Comfrey
Symphytum officinale
Knitbone — a legendary wound-and-bone poultice whose internal use is no longer defensible.
joint pain
1/1OpenToxic
Meadowsweet
Filipendula ulmaria
Creamy meadow plumes that smell of almond and aspirin — a stomach-kinder willow analog.
joint pain
1/1OpenCaution
Monkshood
Aconitum napellus
Hooded indigo flowers — beautiful, and poisonous to the touch in sap, let alone as a tea.
joint pain
1/1OpenDeadly
Nettle
Urtica dioica
The mineral-rich weed that stings, then feeds — spring tonic, hay-fever leaf, prostate root.
joint pain
1/1OpenGentle
Turmeric
Curcuma longa
Golden rhizome of South Asian cooking, taken for stiff joints and low-grade inflammation.
joint pain
1/1OpenGentle
White willow
Salix alba
Riverside tree whose bitter bark is the folk parent of aspirin, used for dull inflammatory pain.
joint pain
1/1OpenCaution
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