A living knowledge base of botanicals

Thailand

Amalaki, also known as Amla or Indian gooseberry, is one of Ayurveda’s great rejuvenating fruits — traditionally valued for vitality, cleansing, skin radiance and daily renewal.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Fruit

Ashwagandha is a root-based botanical with a long role in Indian herbal traditions. It is commonly used in powders, capsules and botanical blends.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Root

Baobab is a fruit powder ingredient from the baobab tree, known for its tangy flavour and use in foods, powders and blends.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Fruit

Berberine is a naturally occurring plant compound found in several botanicals. It is usually supplied as an extract rather than as a simple whole herb powder.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Bark

Thailand

Black Ginger is a dark-rhizome botanical traditionally associated with Thai herbal preparations and functional botanical products.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Rhizome

Thailand

Black Rice is a dark-pigmented rice grain used as a food ingredient and colour-rich botanical material in powders and capsules.

• Seed

Boswellia is a resin ingredient obtained from Boswellia trees. It is used in traditional herbal systems and modern extract-based products.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Bark

Chaga is a dark, earthy mushroom material traditionally used in infusions and modern functional mushroom products.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Coffee Cherry is the fruit surrounding the coffee bean, used in cascara-style beverages, powders and botanical blends.

• Fruit

Cordyceps is a functional mushroom ingredient commonly supplied as cultivated Cordyceps militaris powder or extract.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Cranberry is a tart red berry used in food, juice, powders and extracts. It is valued for its sharp flavour and fruit-based botanical profile.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Fruit

Fenugreek is a seed-based botanical and culinary spice with a warm, slightly bitter flavour and a long history in food traditions.

• Spice
• Seed

Thailand

Galanga is an aromatic rhizome widely used in Southeast Asian culinary and herbal traditions for its warm, spicy character.

• Spice
• Rhizome

Ginkgo biloba is a distinctive tree leaf ingredient used in traditional and modern botanical preparations, most often in extract form.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Leaf

Gotu Kola is a leafy botanical traditionally used in Asian herbal systems and fresh herbal drinks.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Aerial parts

Haritaki is the dried fruit of *Terminalia chebula*, a tree native to South and Southeast Asia. Known as Samo Thai in Thailand, the fruit has a long history of use in Ayurvedic and traditional Thai herbal practices.

• Fruit

Thailand

Holy Basil is an aromatic leafy botanical with deep roots in South and Southeast Asian food and herbal traditions.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Leaf

Jiaogulan is a leafy climbing botanical traditionally used in East Asian herbal teas and wellness preparations.

• Botanical tea ingredient
• Leaf

Thailand

Kaffir Lime Leaves are intensely aromatic citrus leaves used in Southeast Asian culinary and botanical traditions.

• Aromatic herb
• Leaf

Thailand

Lemongrass is a bright, citrus-scented botanical used in teas, culinary preparations and aromatic wellness products.

• Aromatic herb
• Leaf

Lion’s Mane is a distinctive white mushroom used in culinary and functional mushroom products, often as powder, capsules or extracts.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Maca is a root crop from the Andes, commonly dried and milled into powder. It is used in capsules, blends and functional food products.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Root

Maitake is a functional mushroom ingredient valued for its distinctive clustered fruiting body and culinary heritage.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Thailand

Mangosteen is a tropical fruit ingredient known for its distinctive purple rind and sweet-tart fruit heritage.

• Fruit

Thailand

Matcha is a finely milled green tea powder made from shade-grown Camellia sinensis leaves.

• Botanical tea ingredient
• Leaf

Moringa is a leafy botanical traditionally used in tropical food and herbal traditions. Its dried leaves are valued as a green, plant-based ingredient for powders and capsules.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Leaf

Noni is a tropical fruit botanical traditionally used in Pacific and Southeast Asian food and herbal contexts.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Fruit

Thailand

Papaya Leaf is a tropical leaf botanical used in traditional preparations and modern capsule or extract formats.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Leaf

Thailand

Plu Kaow, also known as Houttuynia, is a leafy botanical used in Thai and East Asian traditional contexts.

• Traditional wellness herb
• Leaf

Reishi is a glossy red-brown mushroom with a long history in East Asian traditions and modern functional mushroom products.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Shiitake is a well-known East Asian mushroom used in food traditions and mushroom-based powders, blends and extracts.

• Functional mushroom
• Fruiting body

Spirulina is a blue-green microalgae ingredient commonly dried into powder or tablets for plant-based product formulations.

• Algae ingredient
• Algae

Stevia is a sweet-tasting leaf botanical used mainly as a natural-origin sweetening ingredient.

• Leaf

Turmeric is a golden rhizome from Curcuma longa, valued for its colour, warm flavour and long-standing use in food and herbal traditions.

• Spice
• Rhizome