Medea Botanicals

A modern materia medica — medicinal & edible plants from the world's healing traditions

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Explore the full medicinal and edible plant catalog

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Find plants traditionally associated with specific health concerns

Healing traditions

Edible & nutrition

Plants used as food — by part, with foraging notes

Acacia catechu

Khadira (black catechu / cutch tree)

Actaea racemosa

Black Cohosh

Actinidia deliciosa

Kiwifruit

Aegle marmelos

Bael

Agrimonia eupatoria

Agrimony

Allium sativum

Garlic

Clinical

Tested in human clinical trials.

Preclinical

Laboratory or animal studies; not yet confirmed in humans.

Traditional (systematized)

Documented in systematic traditional medicine literature.

Folk

Reported in folk medicine sources; not clinically validated.

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