Plants benefit us in so many ways. From ornamentals bringing joy, to crops making delicious meals, and herbs adding fragrance to our yards. Another lesser spoken about category is medicinal plants.

Indoor gardening helps create a practical medicinal herb garden for year-round wellness. Aloe vera, chamomile, peppermint, lavender, basil, echinacea, lemon balm, and rosemary are beneficial ...

Many local plants such as the dandelion have edible and medicinal qualities – and more than 100 people attended Karsten’s “herb walk” Saturday to learn about them. The herb walk kicked off ...

Herbs are tremendously popular these days--from the smallest shop to the largest discount warehouse, you'll find medicinal herbs ... You'll plant and raise your herbs, then sell them to wholesale ...

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African ...

Their healing powers seemed magical and indispensable. I fondly recall my grandmother, during the height of the neighborhood summer chickenpox outbreak, boiling chamomile and other skin-soothing herbs ...

The herb thyme has over 300 varieties, many of which have interesting characteristics and scents. Under certain conditions it ...

Oeggerli made images of herbs and spices with a scanning electron microscope, then enhanced the plants’ parts with color. Some of the parts are both factories and silos, containing chemicals ...

An early Western attempt to classify plants was made in the fourth century by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher. He divided ...

Danshen, the dried roots and tubers of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge grown in Juancheng due to its rich soil in the Yellow River basin in southwestern Shandong, has a high content of effective ingredients ...

Researchers have found that Artemisia herba-alba, a medicinal herb, contains compounds capable of fighting colorectal cancer.