Walk into any supermarket in Britain and you’ll see it: a box of chamomile tea tucked neatly beside the breakfast blends. It’s ordinary, unassuming. Familiar

There’s a plant that grows in the forgotten places. Along roadsides. In the corners of gardens. Just at the edges of cultivated land. It doesn’t

There’s something missing from the modern British diet. Not a nutrient. Not a superfood. A taste. Sweet, salty, sour, umami—we’ve embraced these. They dominate the

There’s something about evergreen trees that stops you in your tracks. It might be their stillness. Or their endurance. Or the fact that they remain

There’s a question that’s always bothered herbalists, though most won’t admit it: Why would evolution design a plant that simultaneously attacks you and feeds you?

Here’s something strange. There’s a plant called Leonurus cardiaca—from the Latin leo, lion, and the Greek cardiaca, of the heart. The lion-hearted plant. The name

In December of any given year, something curious happens to the human body. The external temperature drops, and the body responds with a kind of

Consider the hawthorn hedge. For centuries, British farmers planted this thorny, dense-branched tree along their property lines for one reason: it kept people out. The

There’s a peculiar pattern emerging in British homes, and it has nothing to do with what herbalists are recommending. In Manchester, a woman reaches for

In the spring of 1887, a woman named Agnes Pemberton walked into a chemist’s shop on Commercial Road in East London. She was thirty-four years