by Petra N. | Oct 24, 2025 | Featured blog post, Diet & herbs
You may have heard of tulsi, but how well do you really know it? Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) is one of the most respected, all-around pure ayurvedic herbs that’s starting to pop up in grocery stores and vitamin shops. It’s light and dry with a bitter and pungent...
by Petra N. | Sep 28, 2024 | Diet & herbs, Featured blog post
Manjistha, also known as Indian madder in English or Rubia cordifolia in Latin, has been a popular alterative herb in ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Not to be confused with madder, Indian madder is a bitter, sweet and astringent herb with a pungent...
by Petra N. | May 23, 2023 | Diet & herbs, Featured blog post
If sesame oil is the queen of oils in ayurveda, I’d like to dub sunflower oil the hidden gem of oils. Why? It’s one of the few oils that ayurveda defines as tridoshic, which means that it’s generally suitable for all body types, and modern skin science gives a 0...
by Petra N. | Nov 18, 2019 | Diet & herbs, Featured blog post
Amalaki is an ayurvedic herb also known as amla or Indian gooseberry. For me, it was love at first sight. And my love grew stronger the more I played with it. Why is it so great? 1. Amalaki is longevity-promiting, rejuvenative and anti-aging We call it a “rasayana”...
by Petra N. | Jan 28, 2016 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
For sure it’s one of the least sexy topics to talk about at the dinner table. But this chronic, non-communicable lifestyle disease (well, that was a mouthful!) is so prominent all over the world that we cannot sweep it under the rug. Almost two-thirds of us in the...
