Skullcap Root - Scutellaria baicalensis
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Aug 8th 2019
Nature’s
Therapeutic HerbWhat is
Skullcap? Where is it grown?Skullcap is
a flowering perennial plant in the Lamiaceae family with beautiful tubular blue flowers
that can be found growing on the grassy and sandy sea shores of Eastern Asia,
China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Skullcap
is also known as Chinese Skullcap and Baikal Skullcap. In traditional Chinese medicine it is call
Huang
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Which Cat's Claw is Which?
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Oct 15th 2018
A mix up we often see in people first shopping for herbs is
some confusion between Cat's Claw and ANOTHER Cat's Claw. Confusingly, some
plants are named and nicknamed very similarly, even the same, and that is
especially so in this case. Both Uncaria Tomentosa and Uncaria Rhynchophylla
are herbs used popularly in herbal medicine, but with very different histories
and uses.Uncaria Rhynchophyll
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