Wild lettuce: this weed that ancient Egypt used as a natural sedative reveals its medicinal virtues

Wild Lettuce: From Weed To Forgotten Treasure Of Phytotherapy

At the edges of dusty roads and abandoned gardens, a plant resists. Lactuca serriola, the prickly wild lettuce, thrives where other plants surrender. Its characteristic blue-green serrated leaves and modest yellow summer flowers reveal nothing of its glorious past. Yet, this survivor hides a millennial therapeutic heritage that the modern West is only just rediscovering.