Medicinal Herbs Database

A tropical aquatic herb used in folk medicine for diarrhea, skin conditions, and as an anti-inflammatory.

A North American forest herb used by Native Americans for digestive, respiratory, and women conditions.

Alpine European herb used since medieval times as a tonic, diaphoretic, and digestive bitter. Was known as Imperial Herb and considered a cure-all.

Thorny shrub of southern Brazil and neighboring countries, traditional Brazilian remedy for gastric ulcers and cancer.

Southern and East African shrub whose roots and leaves are used for digestive complaints, sexually transmitted infections, and abdominal pain.

Meadowsweet is a flowering plant native to Europe and Western Asia that was historically so valued it was one of the three most sacred herbs of the Druids. It contains salicylates (the basis for aspirin, which was named after its old botanical name Spiraea) but is considered gentler on the stomach than aspirin.

Rare European aquatic mint with distinctive flavor used in traditional Portuguese medicine.

Wild mint widespread across Europe, Asia, and Africa; used in traditional medicine across many cultures.

Aquatic plant of boggy areas in northern hemisphere; traditional bitter tonic and rheumatic remedy.