Hoja santa – Piper auritum Rub a little one of its soft and large leaves. A warm exotic scent will intoxicate you: a blend of star anise, nutmeg and pepper. Commonly called "Hoja santa", or "sacred leaf", perhaps a denomination...

“Two leaves a day, keep old age away” (Sinhalese proverb) It is said that tigers healed their wounds by rubbing leaves on them and that elephants fed on them, thus acquiring great longevity and memory. Considered one of the herbs...

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that...