Supernatural Apothecary.

Roasted, stone-ground velvet bean, near-black with a rich, almost cocoa-like smell, an old Ayurvedic tonic bean.

$24.00

Jiaogulan, the five-leaf sweet tea vine of southern China, steeps into a pale jade cup that opens bitter and finishes surprisingly sweet: an afternoon tea in place of the second co

$17.50

Bacopa monnieri, the brahmi of Ayurvedic tradition, hand-cut, shade-dried and milled into simple capsules: one each morning with breakfast.

$19.50

Sun-dried Indian gooseberries from Uttar Pradesh, wrinkled, chewy and bracingly sour, with no sugar or sulfur added: the fruit behind chyawanprash and one of the three in triphala.

$16.00

Shatavari, the tuberous root of Asparagus racemosus, grown in Madhya Pradesh, shade-dried and milled to a pale ivory powder: a rasayana of Ayurvedic tradition, stirred into warm mi

$21.50

Prepared fo-ti root, steamed with black bean liquid until near-black, then milled to a powder that smells of molasses and dried fig.

$27.50

Stone-milled astragalus root from Shanxi, fine as flour and the color of pale straw: mild, sweet and almost beany, for stirring into soups, broths and congees the old way.

$18.00

A deep tea-brown tincture of eleuthero, the hardy shrub of the cold forests of the Russian Far East and northeast China, slow-extracted over six weeks for a morning ritual.

$22.00

Motherwort tincture, dark olive-brown and boldly bitter, made from aerial parts cut at first bloom along half-wild fence lines and field edges.

$27.00

A tincture pressed from burdock's long, dark taproot alone: bitter, earthy and faintly sweet underneath, taken in a little water before meals in the old bitters tradition.

$20.50

Small, dense chewable tablets of licorice root with most of its glycyrrhizin removed, deep with malt and anise, to chew or let melt slowly before a meal.

$19.00

Finely milled slippery elm inner bark from sustainably managed Appalachian trees, stirred into warm water as a smooth, old-fashioned gruel.

$16.00

Pale, linen-colored marshmallow root, harvested young in the Balkans and steeped cold overnight into a smooth, mild, faintly silky tea to sip through the day, chilled or gently war

$13.50

A tincture of fresh flowering skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, deep amber-green and faintly grassy: a plain roadside herb that nineteenth-century American herbalists held in high

$23.50

Fresh lemon balm leaf, picked and macerated the same day in cane alcohol, so the tincture keeps the bright citrus snap of a leaf crushed between two fingers.

$18.00

Passionflower leaf, stem and flower, extracted 1:4 in 40% grain alcohol: a deep olive-brown tincture, faintly grassy, for a quiet evening ritual.

$21.50

A garnet-dark cordial of frost-picked hawthorn berries from the Carpathian foothills, rounded with raw honey: plummy, tart and faintly of the hedgerow.

$24.00

Ginkgo biloba leaf extract in capsules, from the oldest tree species alive: one with breakfast, one with lunch.

$32.00

The trace mineral Brazil nuts are known for, in one small, precisely measured daily tablet.

$15.00

Silica from the stems of mature bamboo grown without pesticides, milled to a pale green-white powder light as pollen: one or two capsules daily, as part of a balanced routine.

$29.00

Mixed-tocopherol vitamin E from non-GMO sunflower, in honey-colored softgels: one with a meal, or one pierced by the mirror for a dry cuticle, the old-fashioned way.

$17.50

Zinc gluconate in a dense, slow-dissolving lozenge, mineral first and peppermint second, with no dyes, no sugar and no syrup: a small tin for the coat pocket.

$12.50

Ground oarweed, hand-cut from cold Atlantic water off the Scottish coast and air-dried, in a capsule that still smells faintly of the tideline.

$14.00

Vitamin K2 as MK-7, made by fermenting chickpea extract with the culture used for natto, in deep-gold softgels.

$27.00

Calcium citrate and vitamin D3 in a matte white tablet with the faint, dry smell of chalk, taken two at a time with an evening meal as part of a steady daily routine.

$18.00

Folate in its active form, L-methylfolate, in a tiny capsule of ivory-colored powder made by slow fermentation.

$19.50

Methylcobalamin drops, deep translucent red and fermentation-derived, taken under the tongue on rising: a common pick for people who eat little or no animal food.

$16.00

Vitamin C held in sunflower phospholipid: a pale gold gel as thick as good honey, kept in amber glass.

$36.00

A shallow silver-toned bowl and a vial of dense black ink: one drop turns plain water into a dark, faintly rippling mirror, the old art of water-gazing made simple.

$36.00

A brass astrolabe reproduction, cast and hand-engraved with a zodiac ring and a rotating rete pierced to show named stars, its parts turning just as the old instruments did.

$95.00

Twenty staves of seasoned hazel, each notched by hand with one letter, or few, of the early Irish tree alphabet, tied with linen and packed with a printed guide.

$30.00

A birch talking board printed in an antique typeface, with a heart-shaped planchette on felt glides: the Victorian parlor object, faithfully reproduced for candlelit evenings and p

$46.00

An eight-centimeter sphere of flawless optical glass in a turned hardwood cradle, clear enough to hold the whole room upside down at its heart.

$58.00

A complete 78-card tarot drawn in ink and deep indigo, with the waxing and waning moon in every border and matte silver-gilt edges, boxed with a booklet of traditional meanings.

$32.00

Twenty-four Elder Futhark runes burned into pale birch discs, with a blank rune, a folded guide to each meaning and a pouch of undyed linen to keep them in.

$28.00

A faceted teardrop of solid brass on a fine eighteen-centimeter chain, weighted to swing a clean, steady arc: the diviner's old way of asking yes, no, or not yet decided.

$20.00

A gaffed brass coin with the same proud eagle on both faces, weighted to pass for ordinary: a lucky pocket-piece that can only ever land one way.

$18.00

A single fossilized whale vertebra from Morocco's Miocene sea beds, about ten million years old, ochre and gray mineral where bone once was, and entirely one of one.

$68.00

Five hand-blown apothecary bottles in amber and cobalt glass, corked and labeled in old druggist's script: artisan reproductions of the vials that once lined a chemist's shelves.

$45.00

A raw pyrite cluster from the clay mines of Navajún, Spain: brassy cubes intergrown at sharp, near-perfect right angles, fool's gold from one of the few places known for cubes like

$22.00

A single Madagascan ammonite, sawn through its spiral and polished into two mirrored halves: the chambered shell of a sea creature some 150 million years old.

$26.00

A farm-raised luna moth, Actias luna, pale sea-green with long trailing tails and moon-shaped eyespots, preserved under glass in a slim wooden frame after its natural week of life.

$38.00

Nine small drawers, each with a brass knob, a felt lining and a handwritten label: a fern fossil, a chip of iron meteorite, a shark's tooth turned to stone, and other quiet marvels

$120.00

Coarse gray sea salt, hand-raked from the tidal marshes of Guérande and sealed in a small corked jar: for casting circles, marking thresholds and the old rituals of a pinch.

$12.00

Twenty small hand-rolled cones bound with true dragon's blood resin, dark red-brown and slow to burn, with a warm, sweet, faintly spiced smoke closer to amber than flowers.

$10.00

A palm-sized cauldron of sand-cast iron on three stubby legs, with a looped handle and fitted lid, heavy enough to hold a burning charcoal disc and a scatter of resin.

$29.00

A pair of hand-dipped tapers in pure beeswax, colored a deep matte black, burning with a clean, steady flame and a faint honey scent beneath the dark.

$14.00

Reddish-brown lumps of raw myrrh, hand-harvested from wild trees in Somaliland: faintly medicinal in the hand, warm, balsamic and slightly sweet on the coal.

$15.00