medicinal-plants

It suggests that the healing potency of medicinal herbs you grow or buy could one day be enhanced...

The herbs you grow for teas or tinctures — echinacea, valerian, holy basil — may be stronger medi...

Herbs and plants you brew into teas or take as supplements may be doing far more than delivering ...

Herbs growing in your garden or spices sitting in your kitchen cabinet are actively being studied...

Kudzu — the aggressive vine smothering trees along roadsides across the American South — harbors ...

Tanshinones from red sage are used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat heart disease and inf...

It shows that a specific part of a traditional medicinal orchid — the stem — holds the most thera...

Garlic you grow or buy at the farmers market may be far more medicinal than you realize — and som...

Understanding how soil fungi supercharge ginseng's natural chemistry could help growers produce m...

An orchid you might grow on your windowsill produces a natural compound that could one day help t...

Plants growing in traditional herb gardens around the world have quietly been making chemicals th...

Several of the plants studied — saffron, ginseng, and Rhodiola — are already available in gardens...

Ginkgo tree growing in your neighborhood or local park — one of the oldest tree species on Earth ...

Camelthorn is a tough desert plant that stabilizes eroding soils and cleans up heavy metal pollut...

Every time a wild medicinal herb is overharvested near a village or trail, the stressed, exposed ...

Aescin — the active ingredient in horse chestnut creams used for sore legs and bruising — comes f...

It shows that how long you grow a medicinal plant directly determines its healing power — a remin...

It gives rigorous scientific backing to a plant you could grow in your own herb garden, suggestin...

It validates a humble garden herb — Cat's Whiskers, which many people grow as an ornamental — as ...

It highlights how a traditional Chinese herb used for centuries to treat coughs and respiratory c...

Plants you might recognize — olive trees and African cordia — are being lost to farmland clearing...

It suggests a common ornamental orchid used in herbal teas and supplements may contain compounds ...

Quercetin in your garden onions, the isoflavones in your homegrown soybeans, and the puerarin in ...

It shows that a climbing vine used for centuries in folk medicine may hold real promise for treat...

Climbing groundsel herbal preparations sold at markets worldwide carry the same pyrrolizidine alk...

Roseroot supplements on your pharmacy shelf come from wild plants under pressure in the Himalayas...

The microscopic hitchhikers living inside your sage plant's leaves may be shaping the very oils a...

King Solomon's seal root—the same plant sold in herbal shops as a longevity tonic—is disappearing...

Siberian Solomon's seal, a graceful woodland plant many gardeners grow for its arching stems and ...

That forsythia hedge in your neighborhood or garden isn't just pretty — its fruit contains compou...

Knowing that a common tumbleweed relative packs its highest levels of antioxidants and medicinal ...

It's scientific validation that a garden-worthy ornamental herb used in traditional medicine for ...

The lemon balm you grow for tea or calm nerves could soon come in hardier, more potent varieties ...

It's a reminder that the next overlooked shrub in a forest or botanical garden could hold real me...

Medicinal plants used for centuries in traditional remedies are now being validated by modern lab...

Those spiky sweetgum balls littering your lawn and sidewalks each fall may contain compounds with...

Five plants you might find in a botanical garden or herbal shop — juniper, rhododendron, wormwood...

Mint in your garden and the wintergreen along your hiking trail produce compounds that scientists...

Medicinal plants you can grow at home are being harvested for their naturally occurring nanoparti...

Humble peony plant growing in your garden may hold compounds that could one day help the millions...

A complete abstract would reveal which plant's traditional uses and medicinal compounds were revi...