astragalus

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According to testimony from Rishe Khalili, firefighters’ use of bulldozers to put a contingency line around that fire ended up harming astragalus.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

If you lived in China, you’d probably add astragalus root to the broth.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2019

There are some natural products that may be useful for colds and flu specifically, such as andrographis and astragalus — and those that aren’t, echinacea and oscillococcinum.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2017

For fifty bucks, I bought a small jar of Brain Dust, which contains the herb astragalus and an Ayurvedic rock extrusion called shilajit.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2016

Also salvaged was an astragalus, which was a knucklebone of a sheep or a goat used like a die in a game called “knucklebone.”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler