Sweet flag (Acorus calamus) belongs to the arum family. The plant looks like reed, it is common throughout North America, Europe and Asia, where it grows on riverbanks and...

Galangal is related to ginger. It has a strong taste which is somewhat like clove.
It is mostly used as a hallucinogen and as a taste enhancer. Galangal has a...

Guarana (Paulinnia cupana) is a very popular herb among Amazon Indians. Guarana powder contains about 4.2% caffeine. The caffeine in guarana is assimilated better and more...

Kolanut is the seed of a 20 feet high tree that grows in Africa, Jamaica and Brazil.
Kolanut was the main ingredient in Coca-Cola after cocaine became illegal. If...

Maca, also called Lepidium peruvuanum or Lepidium meyeni, has been an important traditional food and medicinal plant in Peru for the last 2000 years. The plant grows...

Sassafras (full name Sassafras Albidum) is a corruption of the Latin word 'saxifrage'. This means 'stone breaker', a name given because the plant comes from the mountainous...