These are plants documented in Indigenous medical practice across North, Central and South America — traditions that are living, not historical, and that are plural rather than one system. Several entered pharmacies through nineteenth-century Eclectic practice, which is how echinacea and goldenseal became commercial crops. Where a plant's traditional use is specific to one nation or region, the page says so instead of flattening it into a continent.
Not every remedy names a tradition. Browse the full A–Z index for all 3,787 remedies, including the 255 with no recorded tradition.
