Plant guides
6 plant(s) tagged “focus”, 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
Bacopa
Bacopa monnieri
Ayurveda's marsh-growing memory herb — one of the few "brain" supplements with real trial data, if you can wait three months.
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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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Ginseng
Panax ginseng
East Asia's "man-root" and the original adaptogen — pricey, potent for fatigue, and worth buying carefully.
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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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Lion's Mane
Hericium erinaceus
A shaggy white cascade of a mushroom that tastes like crab when fried — and is being studied, cautiously, for the brain.
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Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
The Mediterranean shrub scholars have worn for memory since ancient Greece — and modern studies keep finding they were onto something.
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