The Plant Treatment Oasis Association of Nigeria, a body of professional biochemists, has called on the Federal Government to formally integrate herbal and alternative medicine into the country’s ...

Physician and botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold brought unique Asian plant species to Leiden in the 19th century. His legacy shows which plants once played an important role in healthcare. Many of ...

Join herbalist and educator Grace Krupkowski for an immersive class on creating an at-home wildcrafted apothecary, designed ...

From treating coughs to improving heart health, Natalie Hammerquist, herbalist and author of, "Medicinal Plants of the Pacific Northwest", shared some local, easy to find plants that can be used as ...

“We often say that anybody who doesn’t believe that herbal medicines work has obviously never tried morphine,” Professor John Newton, consultant public health physician and Garden Fellow at The Royal ...

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a Sumatran orangutan they’d affectionately named Rakus carefully treating a ...

With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to humans doesn’t ...