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.

Cancer represents a hallmark human disorder of the 21st century. The disease has been around for so long and yet its early diagnosis, let alone its definitive therapy has remained elusive. While ...

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 ...

Astragalus, also known as Huang-qi and milk vetch root, has a long history of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine spanning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

broad stretches of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge plants unfold on Feb 20, as a gentle breeze blows, sending a faint medicinal fragrance in the air. Danshen, the dried roots and tubers of Salvia ...