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A bitter, feathery-leafed plant that grows along roadsides and in wildflower gardens has quietly been one of the most used medicinal herbs on the planet for thousands of years. That…

Yarrow is one of those plants that earns its keep twice: once in the garden, where it blooms for months on almost no care, and again in the home apothecary,…

Tea is the gentlest way to use agrimony, but it’s not the strongest one. A tincture concentrates the herb’s tannins and flavonoids into a shelf-stable liquid that lasts for years…

A scraped knee, a garden nick, a stubborn patch of dry skin: most of us reach for a store-bought ointment before we think about what’s actually in it. Agrimony salve…

A cup of agrimony tea won’t win any beauty contests — it’s the color of weak black tea, and it bites a little on the way down. But brew it…

An earache at 2 a.m. has a way of sending most of us straight to the kitchen for whatever might help. An onion poultice, sometimes called an onion compress, is…

This infused oil is one of the easiest ways to get real garlic flavor into a dish without the sharp bite of raw cloves, and it’s also one of the…

Homemade herb-infused olive oil tastes better than anything on a grocery shelf, but it can also grow a dangerous toxin if you make it the wrong way. That’s not fearmongering….

Twist an ankle in the garden, and the first thing most herbalists reach for is comfrey. It’s one of the oldest first-aid herbs in Western herbalism, and learning how to…