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.
10 plates for poor circulation
Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
The mildest kitchen onion — a perennial snip for eggs, and a gentler cousin of garlic’s folklore.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
The spotted thimble that became digoxin — a poison-garden teaching plant, not a homegrown heart tonic.
poor circulation
1/1OpenDeadly
Ginger
Zingiber officinale
A tropical rhizome for queasy stomachs, cold hands, and dull inflammatory ache.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
The living-fossil tree whose leaf is taken for circulation and memory — slowly, and with bleeding in mind.
poor circulation
1/1OpenCaution
Gotu kola
Centella asiatica
A marsh pennywort eaten for skin, memory folklore, and circulation — a salad herb in the tropics.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
Hedgerow thorn whose leaf, flower, and berry are Europe's classic heart trophorestorative.
poor circulation
1/1OpenCaution
Lily of the valley
Convallaria majalis
A sweet May bell that is a foxglove cousin — perfume, not a homemade heart drop.
poor circulation
1/1OpenDeadly
Roselle
Hibiscus sabdariffa
The crimson sour calyx behind agua de jamaica — a cooling, tart drink for heat and blood pressure folklore.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
A resinous Mediterranean shrub for memory, circulation, and roast potatoes.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Wood ear
Auricularia auricula-judae
A rubbery ear on elder wood — crunch in soup, and a traditional blood-moving food in Chinese cooking.
poor circulation
1/1OpenGentle
Cups for the same complaint