Throughout the history of medicine, plants have always been used in many ways to treat various illnesses. Many of the drugs that are produced today use extracts from all kinds of different plants ...

In recent years, the healthcare landscape has witnessed a profound shift as plant-based medicines, including cannabis, have emerged as contenders to traditional pharmaceuticals. Plant medicine refers ...

This episode takes a deep dive into the plants traditionally used as medicine. This episode takes a deep dive into the plants that have been traditionally used as medicine by Wise Women all over ...

Foxglove, a flowering plant long feared for its toxicity, became an unlikely source of a widely studied heart drug. Digoxin, ...

The German polymath Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess in the High Middle Ages, developed a holistic view of healing while working in her monastery’s herb garden and caring for the sick in its ...

"My registered name is Hemerson Dantas dos Santos, but you can add ‘Pataxó Hãhãhãi’ at the end, which is the Indigenous people I belong to." This is how the interview began, conducted by Medscape’s ...

Plants with a long history of use as topical analgesics by Native Americans may also be helpful against diarrhea. The corresponding study was published in Frontiers in Physiology by researchers led by ...

Forest communities in southwestern Ghana use 70 species of medicinal trees to treat up to 83 ailments, according to a recent study. These plants contain high levels of bioactive compounds with ...

A cup of chamomile tea before bedtime. Peppermint for an upset stomach. Fresh squeezed lemon juice stirred with local honey to soothe a sore throat. There are simple, go-to remedies using ingredients ...