Fertilizer is effective, but why not improve your soil the natural way? These herbs are beautiful, useful, and can benefit ...

WASHINGTON — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the ...

A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry ...

Mosquitoes are not a welcome visitor to the backyard, and you may be looking for ways to keep them out. This easy-to-grow ...

Plants have long been recognized for their therapeutic properties. Now, modern science is unravelling the mechanisms of action of ancient herbal medicines and finding new ways to exploit them.

Faridabad (Haryana) [India], August 6: Dr. Mahesh Kumar Dadhich, Chief Executive Officer of the National Medicinal Plants ...

Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...

For example, pharmaceutical chemist, Youyou Tu, discovered artemisinin, an antimalarial extract from the plant Artemisia after being inspired by an entry in the sixteenth century tome, Compendium ...

In our own era of mysterious diseases, the supposition that some plants might cure the human organs they most resemble is surfacing once more. Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Flora,” circa 1591 ...