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Devil's Club

One of the most revered medicinal and spiritual plants of Pacific Northwest tribes, a spiny ginseng relative.

Benefits

Key compounds

Saponinspolyynessesquiterpenes

May help with

Best for these goals

Blood sugar balancetraditional tonic

How to use it

Inner root bark carefully de-spined, dried, and simmered as a decoction

Evidence level

Traditional

Cautions & interactions

Fiercely spined — handle with care. A sacred and increasingly at-risk plant; source ethically and sustainably. Avoid in pregnancy; may affect blood sugar.
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