Find a plant by how you feel

Arnica

Arnica montana

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

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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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Blue vervain

Verbena hastata

A candelabra of purple spikes in wet ground — a bitter American nervine of the old Eclectic physicians.

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Brown mustard

Brassica juncea

The yellow flower that became a jar — a pungent seed, a bitter green, and a traditional chest-plaster plant.

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Cannabis (hemp & marijuana)

Cannabis sativa

A dioecious annual used as fiber, seed food, and — where legal — as a medicine for pain, nausea, and spasticity.

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Cayenne

Capsicum annuum

The slender red chili that taught Europe heat — a kitchen spice and a traditional circulation pungent.

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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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Kava

Piper methysticum

Pacific ceremonial root for social ease and muscle quiet — liver-safe only as traditional aqueous preparations.

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Passionflower

Passiflora incarnata

A climbing vine with baroque flowers, used when the mind will not step off the wheel.

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Skullcap

Scutellaria lateriflora

A wetland mint for circular thinking — a nervine that wants the right species.

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Valerian

Valeriana officinalis

Foul-sweet root used as a non-habit-forming night herb — strong, uneven, not for everyone.

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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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