Plants & botanicals
Explore our plants & botanicals guides, find your starting point and follow the ingredients, products and questions that interest you.
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Dream herbs explained: African dream root, seed and uvuma-omhlophe
African dream root, African dream seed and uvuma-omhlophe are three unrelated plants. What the labels mean, what the sources say and where research stops.
Kanna: meet the plant behind the extracts
Kanna turns up on smartshop shelves as leaf, powder and extracts. Here is what the plant is, why the products differ, and what small studies found.
Damiana: beyond the shop description
Damiana (Turnera diffusa) has a famous aphrodisiac reputation. Here is where it comes from, what rodent and lab studies found, and what is still unknown.
Blue lotus: what is it, actually?
Which flower is blue lotus, what do lab analyses find in it, and what does the safety and legal picture look like in the Netherlands and EU?
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Explore our plants & botanicals guides, find your starting point and follow the ingredients, products and questions that interest you.
Are plants & botanicals articles beginner-friendly?
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