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.
9 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
Deadly nightshade
Atropa belladonna
Shiny black cherries on a dull purple bell — atropine in botanical form. Not a home medicine.
pain
1/1OpenDeadly
Fly agaric
Amanita muscaria
The red fairy-tale mushroom — a deliriant poison with a folk-intoxicant history, not a gentle psychedelic.
pain
1/1RegulatedToxic
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
Monkshood
Aconitum napellus
Hooded indigo flowers — beautiful, and poisonous to the touch in sap, let alone as a tea.
pain
1/1OpenDeadly
Oleander
Nerium oleander
A freeway-median flower whose leaves can stop a heart — including as a 'tea' in folklore that should have died.
pain
1/1OpenDeadly
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
1/1OpenDeadly
Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum
The nightshade that built an industry — a teaching plate for nicotine, addiction, and why 'natural' is not safer.
pain
1/1RegulatedCaution