Herb Library

Browse our comprehensive collection of traditional medicinal plants and herbal remedies.

All Herbs Bark & Wood Flowers Fruits & Seeds Leaves Roots & Rhizomes Succulents

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Herbs for: Blood Sugar Control

Fruits & Seeds

(Trichosanthes cucumerina)

Dummella (Trichosanthes cucumerina) hangs from village trellises like a bundle of pale green snakes,

Roots & Rhizomes

(Lasia spinosa)

Kohila (Lasia spinosa) is the vegetable that bites back: a marsh plant whose leaf stalks and rhizome

Fruits & Seeds

(Cuminum cyminum)

Suduru (Cuminum cyminum) is the warm, earthy backbone of Sri Lankan curry powder and of the digestiv

Fruits & Seeds

(Nigella sativa)

Kaluduru (Nigella sativa) arrived in Sri Lanka along the spice routes and settled into two places at

Leaves

(Costus speciosus (syn. Hellenia speciosa))

Ask any Sri Lankan gardener about thebu and you will hear the same instruction: "one leaf a day for

Fruits & Seeds

(Momordica charantia)

Karawila (Momordica charantia) is the vegetable Sri Lankan children are bribed to eat and Sri Lankan

Fruits & Seeds

(Trigonella foenum-graecum)

Uluhal (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is the small, amber, maple-scented seed that goes into the temper

Bark & Wood

(Salacia reticulata)

Kothala himbutu (Salacia reticulata) is that rare thing in herbal medicine: a Sri Lankan folk remedy

Fruits & Seeds

(Syzygium cumini)

Madan (Syzygium cumini) stains your tongue purple and your fingers with history. Before insulin exis