Medicinal Herbs Database

Ancient grain crop with medicinal properties; seeds and leaves used as nutritive tonic, anti-inflammatory, and for digestive and cardiovascular support.

Weedy annual plant from the Americas, one of the most nutritious wild plants high in protein and minerals.

A sacred Andean tree whose large seeds are the traditional staple food of the Mapuche people; nutritive and medicinal.

Bamboo leaves and shavings are used in TCM to clear heat and in modern nutrition as a rich source of organic silica.

Young barley leaves harvested before the grain develops. Similar to wheatgrass but with distinct nutritional profile.

Biennial plant cultivated for edible roots and leaves, rich in nitrates, betaine and betalain pigments.

Ancient grain used across Europe and Asia as food medicine. Used in TCM for digestive complaints, and in European folk medicine as a nutritive warming food for the elderly and weak.

Papuan endemic fruit with exceptional carotenoid content; used in traditional Papuan medicine and gaining attention as an antioxidant and anti-HIV food supplement.

Caribbean tuber-bearing Marantaceae; tubers used as food and folk medicine for digestive conditions.

Bulbous perennial of western North American meadows with blue flowers, major traditional food of many tribes.

Amazonian wetland shrub with extraordinary vitamin C content - highest of any documented fruit; used as nutritive and antiviral.

South American Canna with edible starchy rhizomes; ancient Andean food crop with nutritional value.

Tropical American ornamental; rhizome starch used as food; leaves and seeds used in folk medicine.