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AJ Herbs · The Everyday Pharmacy Coriandrum sativum — Dhania — Cilantro — 7,000 Years of One Plant The HerbHalf the World Lovesand the Other HalfCalls Soap —and Why Both Are Right It was buried with a Pharaoh. It fed Roman legions across a continent. Hippocrates prescribed it for anxiety. And in 2019, a University…
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The Root That Sits in Every Asian Kitchen and Nobody Can Name
AJ Herbs · The Zingiberaceae Deep Dive Kaempferia galanga — Kencur — Cekur — Sha Jiang — The Forgotten One It is smaller than ginger, darker than galangal, and more camphorous than both. It grows from India to Nigeria. Its primary molecule inhibits COX enzymes, blocks tumour blood supply, sensitises cancer cells to chemotherapy, and…
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Dukung Anak: The Stonebreaker That Four Continents Discovered Alone
AJ Herbs · Deep Dive Series — Rainforest Botanicals Phyllanthus niruri · Dukung Anak · Chanca Piedra · Bhumi Amla A small herb growing in roadsides and open wastelands across the tropics — so unremarkable that you would walk past it. Yet Ayurveda, Amazonian shamans, Malaysian healers, Chinese physicians, and West African medicine men all…
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AJ Herbs · The Everyday Pharmacy Coriandrum sativum — Dhania — Cilantro — 7,000 Years of One Plant The HerbHalf the World Lovesand the Other HalfCalls Soap —and Why Both Are Right It was buried with a Pharaoh. It fed Roman legions across a continent. Hippocrates prescribed it for anxiety. And in 2019, a University…
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The Root That Sits in Every Asian Kitchen and Nobody Can Name
AJ Herbs · The Zingiberaceae Deep Dive Kaempferia galanga — Kencur — Cekur — Sha Jiang — The Forgotten One It is smaller than ginger, darker than galangal, and more camphorous than both. It grows from India to Nigeria. Its primary molecule inhibits COX enzymes, blocks tumour blood supply, sensitises cancer cells to chemotherapy, and…
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Dukung Anak: The Stonebreaker That Four Continents Discovered Alone
AJ Herbs · Deep Dive Series — Rainforest Botanicals Phyllanthus niruri · Dukung Anak · Chanca Piedra · Bhumi Amla A small herb growing in roadsides and open wastelands across the tropics — so unremarkable that you would walk past it. Yet Ayurveda, Amazonian shamans, Malaysian healers, Chinese physicians, and West African medicine men all…