Medicinal Herbs — Page 6

Oil painting of a slender tongkat ali tree in a Southeast Asian forest understory at golden hour, with a botanical inset of a long pinnate leaf, a cluster of tiny reddish flowers, egg-shaped red-brown fruits, and a twisted taproot

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Tongkat Ali

Eurycoma longifolia

Tongkat ali is the root of Eurycoma longifolia, a slender, slow-growing tree of Southeast Asian forests and a member of the quassia family,...

Oil painting of sprawling tribulus mats with small yellow flowers along a sun-baked dirt road, with a botanical inset of a pinnate leaf with paired leaflets, a five-petaled yellow flower, and a spiny burr splitting into goathead segments

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Tribulus

Tribulus terrestris

Tribulus is a roadside weed with a second career as a supplement. Tribulus terrestris is a low, sprawling plant of the caltrop family whose...

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) plant with lance-shaped leaves, pale yellow flower spike, and a botanical inset of sliced orange rhizome, leaf, and flower

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Turmeric

Curcuma longa

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a tropical ginger-family perennial whose knobby orange rhizome has been food, dye, and medicine across South Asi...

Oil painting of low evergreen bearberry mats on a rocky golden-hour northern heath with pines and distant mountains, with a botanical inset of a trailing stem with small glossy leaves, pink-white urn-shaped flowers, and red berries

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Uva Ursi (Bearberry)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Uva ursi, or bearberry, is a low evergreen shrub of northern heaths and pine woods whose small, glossy, leathery leaves have been used for b...

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) standing tall at a damp meadow edge at dusk, domed clusters of tiny white-pink flowers above divided leaves, painted in oils, with a parchment botanical inset of the knotted root and rhizome

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Valerian

Valeriana officinalis

Valerian is the classic herbal sleep aid, used for calm and rest since ancient Greece and Rome, and it has a famously strong smell. The drie...

Oil painting of vervain with wiry spikes of tiny pale lilac flowers by a sunny Mediterranean stone wall, with a botanical inset of a square stem, deeply lobed opposite leaves, a slender flower spike, and nutlets

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Vervain

Verbena officinalis

Vervain is a wiry, unscented roadside perennial with an outsized reputation. Verbena officinalis, also called common vervain or simpler’s jo...

White willow (Salix alba) tree with silvery lance-shaped leaves and furrowed bark along a riverbank

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White Willow

Salix alba

White willow (Salix alba) is a tall, silvery-leaved willow of European and Asian riverbanks, and its bark is one of the oldest pain remedies...

Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) in a sunlit hay meadow, painted in oils, with flat-topped white flower clusters and feathery leaves, and a parchment botanical inset of the divided leaf, rootstock, and a single flower head

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Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Yarrow is the flat-topped white weed of road verges, hay meadows, and lawns that refuse to stay mown. Crush a leaf and it smells sharp and c...

Oil painting of tall curled dock with rust-red seed spikes at a damp field edge by a stream in evening light, with a botanical inset of a wavy-edged lance-shaped leaf, a yellow taproot, and a branching spike of rust-red fruits

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Yellow Dock

Rumex crispus

Yellow dock is a weed with a long medical history. Rumex crispus, also called curled or curly dock, is a tall member of the knotweed family...

Yohimbe (Pausinystalia johimbe) rainforest tree with glossy leaves and a botanical inset of bark, leaves, flowers, and bark cross-section

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Yohimbe

Pausinystalia johimbe

Yohimbe is an evergreen rainforest tree of West and Central Africa, known to botanists as Pausinystalia johimbe and, in current Kew-based ch...

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Herb library

Tongkat Ali

Tribulus

Turmeric

Uva Ursi (Bearberry)

Valerian

Vervain

White Willow

Yarrow

Yellow Dock

Yohimbe