Plant guides
16 plant(s) tagged “antioxidant”, each covered the same way: what it is, its benefits, how to use it, and its precautions.
All Adaptogen 6 Allergies 1 Anti-inflammatory 3 Antioxidant 16 Aromatherapy 3 Blood pressure 4 Blood sugar 4 Calm 5 Colds 6 Digestion 20 Energy 4 Eyes 2 First aid 6 Focus 6 Food plant 14 Gut health 2 Headache 2 Heart 9 Hormones 2 Immune 8 Joints 3 Kitchen spice 19 Kitchen staple 1 Lactation 2 Liver 2 Memory 6 Menstrual 2 Mood 2 Mushroom 6 Nausea 1 Respiratory 6 Skin 6 Sleep 6 Stress 5 Tea 8 Urinary 3
Amla / Indian Gooseberry
Phyllanthus emblica
Ayurveda's sour green fruit — a vitamin C powerhouse and the backbone of Triphala and chyawanprash.
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Basil
Ocimum basilicum
The sweet, clove-and-anise scented leaf of summer — at its best torn fresh over tomatoes and never cooked for long.
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Bilberry
Vaccinium myrtillus
Europe's wild blueberry, deep purple to the core — delicious and antioxidant-rich, though its famous night-vision legend doesn't hold up.
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Black Pepper
Piper nigrum
The king of spices, best ground fresh at the table — and a quiet booster of how much of some nutrients and drugs your body absorbs.
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Chaga
Inonotus obliquus
A charcoal-black canker on northern birch trees, brewed into an earthy tea — heavily hyped, lightly studied, and very high in oxalate.
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Cinnamon
Cinnamomum verum
The bark that launched trade empires — with a genuine but modest effect on blood sugar, and one important safety catch.
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Clove
Syzygium aromaticum
Fiercely aromatic dried flower buds that warm mulled wine and gingerbread — and numb an aching tooth in a pinch.
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Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
The tart bog berry best known for bladder health — genuinely useful for preventing some UTIs, but no cure for one already underway.
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Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
A living fossil with fan-shaped leaves, famous as a memory herb — though the best trials show it is no shield against ageing brains.
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Green Tea
Camellia sinensis
The unoxidised leaf that pairs caffeine with calm — and centuries of daily-ritual evidence.
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Milk Thistle
Silybum marianum
The white-veined Mediterranean thistle whose seeds became the world's best-known liver herb — well studied, very safe, and more modest than the marketing.
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Olive Leaf
Olea europaea
The bitter, silvery leaf of the Mediterranean olive tree — rich in oleuropein and studied for gentle support of blood pressure.
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Oregano
Origanum vulgare
The sun-baked Mediterranean herb that tastes better dried than fresh — and whose concentrated oil is a very different thing.
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Pomegranate
Punica granatum
Jewel-like seeds and tart ruby juice with a modest but real effect on blood pressure — and a legend in every ancient culture.
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Saffron
Crocus sativus
The world's costliest spice — hand-picked crimson threads with a surprisingly respectable body of research on low mood.
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Sea Buckthorn
Hippophae rhamnoides
A thorny coastal shrub crowded with sour orange berries — packed with vitamin C, carotenoids and a rare omega-7 oil.
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