r/herbs

I eat about 1/3 oz of dried thyme and 1/4oz dried ​Rosemary every day. I just dump it in the cap and then toss it back and chew it. I find it to be incredibly delicious. Oregano is good too but I crave thyme more usually. I also figured out that taking small bites off of a nutmeg once or twice a day ​has profound effects on banishing depression. The taste is also delicious. Highly toxic on the liver though so tiny doses are important.

What are a few herbs for a small kitchen garden ? For general American cooking, tending towards Mediterranean diet.

I've spent years going back and forth between thick reference books, scattered apps, and handwritten notes trying to connect the dots between Western herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda. Every tool I found only covered one tradition, and none of them thought the way a practicing herbalist actually thinks.

So I finally just built it myself. It's called Herbal Oracle and I want to be upfront, this is something I made because I genuinely needed it, not because I'm trying to sell you something. It's completely free, no ads, no subscription, no data tracking, and it works offline.

It covers 331+ medicinal herbs across all three traditions. You can search by symptom, body system, energetics, taste, or temperature. You can build and calculate custom formulas, track your herb inventory, log your healing journey, and follow condition protocols. There's also a seasonal calendar synced to TCM and Ayurveda based on your hemisphere.

There is an AI component I want to be transparent about, it’s a plant photo identifier and an herbal consultant you can ask about dosages, contraindications, and traditional concepts. I know AI is a loaded word right now, but it was built specifically to support traditional herbal frameworks, not replace the wisdom behind them.

I'd genuinely love feedback from this community, since you all know this world better than most. What's missing? What would make it more useful for your practice?

Happy to answer any questions. Drop a comment if you want the App Store link.

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Im looking for herbs i can drink to suppress my appetite , i find the taste of coffee does exactly that, but im sensitive to caffeine, if i drink it after noon it will ruin my sleep , is there any herbs that taste like coffee?

I planted a ton of both verbena and balm last year. I am in zone 4b. Will both come back this year? Some parts of the internet say yes, others say no.

what are some good herbs for anxiety & relaxtion that actually work?

idk if it’s just me but suddenly everything is “detox”

detox tea, detox water, detox powders, detox capsules, like what are we even detoxing from all the time 😭

growing up we never used this word so much. it was just normal stuff, kadha, haldi doodh, random leaves our parents forced us to drink

now the same things are in fancy packaging and 10x the price

i’m not even saying it’s fake or anything

just feels like the whole thing got rebranded and now we’re all buying it again

does it actually work or are we just convincing ourselves it does?

genuinely curious what people think