Symptom index
Find a plant by how you feel
Type a symptom — cough, sleep, skin — or tap a chip. Matching plates, teas, and remedies rise to the top. This is a folk index, not a diagnosis.
14 plates for pain
Cannabis (hemp & marijuana)
Cannabis sativa
A dioecious annual used as fiber, seed food, and — where legal — as a medicine for pain, nausea, and spasticity.
pain
1/1RestrictedCaution
Cramp bark
Viburnum opulus
A hedge viburnum whose bark is the old antispasmodic of European midwives — a cramp folklore, not a candy.
pain
1/1LegalCaution
Deadly nightshade
Atropa belladonna
Shiny black cherries on a dull purple bell — atropine in botanical form. Not a home medicine.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly
Fly agaric
Amanita muscaria
The red fairy-tale mushroom — a deliriant poison with a folk-intoxicant history, not a gentle psychedelic.
pain
1/1RegulatedToxic
Henbane
Hyoscyamus niger
Sticky, dingy-yellow bells with purple veins — the witches’-herb and medieval beer-plant that is now a labeled poison-garden specimen only.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly
Kratom
Mitragyna speciosa
A Southeast Asian coffee-family tree whose leaves act on opioid receptors — used for pain and withdrawal, and capable of dependence.
pain
1/1RegulatedCaution
Mistletoe
Viscum album
The kissing parasite — white berries on a host branch, a solstice prop, and a teaching plate so it is not boiled as a winter tonic.
pain
1/1LegalToxic
Monkshood
Aconitum napellus
Hooded indigo flowers — beautiful, and poisonous to the touch in sap, let alone as a tea.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly
Oleander
Nerium oleander
A freeway-median flower whose leaves can stop a heart — including as a 'tea' in folklore that should have died.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly
Opium poppy
Papaver somniferum
The garden poppy that also yields opium — a beautiful annual whose latex is the source of morphine, codeine, and a century of addiction medicine.
pain
1/1RestrictedDeadly
Poison hemlock
Conium maculatum
Socrates' cup — a purple-spotted parsley that is still mistaken for fennel, carrot, and Queen Anne's lace.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly
Pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
Magenta stems and ink-dark berries — an American roadside that looks like food and is a poison-garden lesson.
pain
1/1LegalToxic
Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum
The nightshade that built an industry — a teaching plate for nicotine, addiction, and why 'natural' is not safer.
pain
1/1RegulatedCaution
Water hemlock
Cicuta maculata
The wetland umbel that looks like parsley and kills like a seizure — a teaching plate so fennel, dill, and watercress have a named opposite.
pain
1/1LegalDeadly