Called kelor in Malaysia, and studied as one of the most nutritionally complete plants. What a placebo-controlled trial found, and what the science actually says.
Moringa : The Tree That Does Not Know How to Die. Read More »
Its name means “shattered glass”, and its leaves grow crystal structures inside. Used for centuries in this region for kidney stones, and now studied in labs from Malaysia to France.
Pecah Beling : The Plant Named After What It Shatters. Read More »
Citral gives lemongrass its smell, and it is also one of the compounds in the pheromone bees use to call a lost swarm home. Early lab research is looking at its effect on cancer cells.
Serai : The Plant That Smells Like Home to Bees — and Does What Antibiotics Cannot. Read More »
Reduced to a postpartum label, Kacip Fatimah also has vasorelaxant and blood-vessel research that supplement marketing never mentions. Much of it in animals and the lab, and worth understanding properly.
Kacip Fatimah : Malaysia’s Most Misunderstood Herb Read More »
Yellow, Red and Black Tongkat Ali are three different species, not three grades of one plant. The species, the SHBG science, the bone research and the extraction fraud.
Tongkat Ali : The Complete Story Read More »
Dismissed as a humble kitchen spice while labs on three continents studied fenugreek’s effects on blood sugar, hormones, muscles, milk production and the gut.
Halba : The Spice That Does Too Much to Be Taken Seriously Read More »
For five hundred years, European scholars wrote about a plant that grew a living lamb. The legend was wrong and the plant was real, with a pharmacology that outlasted the myth.
In 2024, researchers compared andrographolide with four widely used pain relievers at the NF-κB level. Eleven names, six civilisations, one conclusion.
Hempedu Bumi : The Bitterest Plant Is Also the Most Useful Read More »
Buried with a Pharaoh, prescribed by Hippocrates for anxiety, and in 2019 found to contain an anticonvulsant compound. Why half the world loves coriander and the other half calls it soap.
The Herb Half the World Loves and the Other Half Calls Soap —and Why Both Are Right Read More »
After my nerve injury, some areas ached persistently. The Orang Asli ground Cekur into a paste and I applied it. Then the pharmacology of Kaempferia galanga.
Cekur : The Pain the Body Keeps Remembering Read More »