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

Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.

In the evolving landscape of plant medicine, terpenes have emerged from relative obscurity to become recognized as crucial therapeutic compounds. These aromatic molecules, responsible for the ...

Readers are invited to join The Garden Club of Newtown and Alyssa Mancini, founder of Herbs Love and Yoga, for an engaging ...

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 ...

Iridoids are a widespread and evolutionarily ancient class of plant secondary metabolites belonging to the terpenes. They occur in thousands of plant species and play an important role in defense and ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. It is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded ...

The herb Stemona sessilifolia has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to combat parasitic worm infections in people and to kill insects on plants. That insecticidal activity has now been ...