medicinal-plants

If your vegetable garden sits on land that was once a gas station, an orchard sprayed with lead a...

Fungicide treatments sold to protect fritillary bulbs from rot can make rot three times worse by ...

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 ...

If you have a sunny, dry corner of your yard, prickly pear cactus can produce edible pads and fru...

Those piles of woody clippings from your annual rose and fruit-tree pruning may harbor natural we...

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

If you forage or wild-harvest medicinal herbs anywhere near a power plant, smokestack, or heavy i...

The echinacea, holy basil, and lavender in your herb garden ramp up their protective compounds wh...

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

Dozens of the wild flowers locals in Guangxi have eaten for generations—gathered from roadsides a...

If you grow peppermint or any mint in your garden, inoculating the soil with a Bacillus subtilis-...

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

Growing a window box of thyme, rosemary, and oregano — and actually cooking with them daily — cou...

Yarrow blooming in roadside ditches and meadows right now is one of the best indicators that your...

Oregano and cinnamon sprays marketed as natural pest controls for your greenhouse or indoor plant...

If you're growing herbs or vegetables in soil that feels crusty white at the surface or near a dr...

Charcoal made from fruit-processing scraps — the kind piling up behind juice factories — can reha...

Those bitter compounds in your homegrown kale that intensify after a frost aren't accidental — th...

Common garden vegetables and kitchen staples like avocado, beetroot, and cloves — plants you may ...

Fenugreek growing in your herb garden has been trusted by mothers across Punjab for generations t...

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

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

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along your fence line is a free pollinator buffet — its flat-topp...

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

Many of the herbs documented here—like cinnamon and pomegranate—grow in temperate gardens worldwi...

Elderberry, chamomile, plantain, and nettles growing in your garden or hedgerow have been quietly...

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

The elderberries, rosehips, and culinary herbs you grow out back are quietly stocking your gut wi...

That purple yam you might grow as an ornamental or edible in a warm-climate garden turns out to p...

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

Yarrow spreading along roadsides and meadow edges near you is one of the easiest native plants to...

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

Those buckets of spent marigold blooms you compost after the season could instead be dried and pr...

Melon breeders now have a precise genetic target to eliminate the mouth-puckering bitterness that...

Gromwell's deep-red root dye has colored textiles and lip balms for centuries, and unlocking the ...

Pacific yew trees, once stripped from old-growth forests to harvest Taxol bark at the rate of six...

Where a plant was grown — not just how you care for it — shapes the invisible microbial community...

If you grow leafy greens in pots or raised beds where salts build up over time from tap water and...

Soil-drenching beneficial bacteria like this one are already available to home gardeners, and und...

Periwinkle, henbane, and barberry growing in botanical gardens or hedgerows are quietly running s...

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

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

Yarrow blooming in your yard or along roadsides right now is one of the most reliable signals tha...

Stinging nettle has been used in folk medicine for centuries, and now researchers have the geneti...

Rosemary, turmeric, green tea, and the dark berries ripening in your garden right now are among t...

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

The sulforaphane in your garden broccoli and kale is now showing up in lab studies as a molecular...

If you grow medicinal herbs under grow lights, the color of that light — not just its brightness ...

Garlic and ginger already in your garden beds are quietly producing compounds that can slow the s...

The black goji berries you might grow along a sunny fence or find dried at a specialty market car...

Herbs and wild plants that traditional healers have cultivated and passed down for generations ar...

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

The gray mold that collapses your tomato plants by August has evolved its own molecular toolkit t...

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

Those graceful arching stems of Solomon's Seal you cut back each fall — the parts most growers to...

If you mount orchids or other epiphytes on dead wood versus living bark, you are making a choice ...

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 ...

Gastrodia elata — a rootless, leafless orchid prized in traditional medicine — survives entirely ...

Cannabis is increasingly grown as a specialty crop, and knowing which of its dozens of natural co...

Dendrobium orchids you might grow on a windowsill or find in a specialty nursery have been quietl...

Hardy orchid (Bletilla striata) — the pleated-leaf, magenta-flowered plant already thriving in sh...

Kudzu, the vine smothering roadsides and forest edges across the American South, turns out to car...

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

The tomato plant fending off caterpillars in your garden does it partly through peptide alarm sig...

Three tropical medicinal herbs traditionally used in Brazilian folk healing can be grown in Europ...

Grandmothers in rural Guangdong have quietly maintained a living pharmacopoeia of 108 bath plants...

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

Garlic growing in your kitchen garden produces allicin and ajoene — the same compounds scientists...

Tropical plants your botanical garden labels as 'ornamental' may be quietly holding chemistry tha...

Herbal remedies passed down in Caribbean communities aren't frozen in the past — they're a living...

Herbalists and foragers who work with roots versus stems of medicinal plants now have hard data s...

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

Garlic growing in your kitchen garden carries compounds that scientists just mapped to the same i...

Hopbush, a tough drought-tolerant shrub grown in gardens worldwide as a hedge or ornamental, has ...

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

Job's tears grain and lily bulbs sold in herbal markets and health food stores were contaminated ...

White mulberry trees grow as volunteers in vacant lots, hedgerows, and backyard edges across much...

Blumea species—aromatic herbs long burned as incense or brewed into fever teas across Asian garde...

Corn and wheat quietly defend themselves from insects and fungi using built-in chemical shields t...

Garlic and ashwagandha — plants you might already grow — are cornerstones of a centuries-old vete...

Mexican Giant Hyssop's confirmed presence in suburban DFW means you can likely grow this drought-...

Every berry, herb, and leafy green you grow in your garden is packed with polyphenols that measur...

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

Andrographis is the bitter herb behind some of the most widely sold immune supplements in health ...

Herbal remedies your grandmother swore by — and the plants you may be growing in your garden righ...

Many herbal remedies and plant-derived medicines on pharmacy shelves—from cancer drugs to anxiety...

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

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

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

Cistanche grows by stealing nutrients from the roots of desert shrubs like saxaul, and the same c...

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

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

Horny goat weed — a low-growing perennial you can actually grow in a shaded garden border — has b...

Licorice root you can grow in a sunny border and the grapefruit sitting on your counter both carr...

Chirayita grows wild across Himalayan foothills and has been brewed as a bitter tonic tea for cen...

If a rock-based soil amendment that costs nothing to mine and has been used for thousands of year...

A humble seed steeped as tea across Asian households for centuries turns out to work on gut bacte...

Ginseng growing in your woodland garden or shade bed holds polysaccharides in its roots that feed...

Herbs like ginseng that you might grow or brew as tea contain compounds scientists are now seriou...

Japanese knotweed, the plant many gardeners wage relentless war against along fence lines and riv...

Hackberry trees lining city streets and suburban yards belong to the same family as cannabis, and...

An herb long brewed by Miao healers in southwestern China to fight respiratory infections has now...

Many of the herbs traditional healers have relied on for centuries — things like licorice and clo...

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

Wild bergamot is one of the best native plants you can add to a sunny garden border — it blooms m...

A sticky, yellow-flowered shrub colonizing roadsides around the Mediterranean turns out to pack c...

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

Seeds and milky sap are the two most dangerous plant parts in this 93-species catalog — a reminde...

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

Ashwagandha, already a fixture in herb gardens and health-food aisles, contains compounds that co...

Rose cactus is an easy-to-grow edible shrub with leaves high enough in protein and fiber to rival...

Herbs you grow for teas, tinctures, or home remedies—chamomile, echinacea, valerian—could soon be...

If you grow onions at home, Stemphylium blight is the fungal disease most likely to wipe out your...

If you grow onions at home or rely on them in the kitchen, a single season of Stemphylium blight ...

Many herbal remedies and plant-derived medicines are limited by slow-growing plants, climate, and...

Every herb, vegetable, and wildflower in your garden contains hundreds of unknown compounds that ...

A climbing vine used for centuries in Asian folk medicine just passed a clinical trial — the same...

An ornamental flowering tree grown in Asian gardens for centuries turns out to carry one of the m...

A woody vine used in Chinese herbal medicine for centuries is now showing laboratory evidence tha...

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

Those green mats carpeting your neighborhood pond could one day grow the vaccines and antibodies ...

Contaminated brownfields near tanneries and factories could one day be restored using garden-wort...

Herbs you grow in your garden — chamomile, echinacea, valerian — are part of a global research pi...

Herbs and botanicals you grow or forage — from turmeric to green tea to legumes — may be quietly ...

Every splash of color in your garden's anthocyanins, every waxy leaf surface that sheds rain, and...

Herbs like turmeric, rosemary, and ginkgo growing in your garden may hold compounds actively bein...

Milk thistle growing at the edge of your garden has been quietly producing one of the most clinic...

Neem trees planted in tropical gardens worldwide have been used as living pharmacies for centurie...

Snake-needle grass, a sprawling groundcover long stocked in Chinese apothecaries and now naturali...

Yellow tea plants, cultivated for centuries in China's mountain gardens and increasingly grown by...

The jimsonweed sprawling across roadsides and the amla tree fruiting in South Asian gardens carry...

The fibrous structural carbohydrates in roots, stems, and seed coats of plants you grow or forage...

Fungi living invisibly inside your garden thyme and sage may be quietly protecting them from dise...

Desert plants that survive Pakistan's brutal Cholistan heat and drought have had to evolve potent...

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

The Brazilian pepper tree choking out native habitat along Florida's coasts and Gulf marshes turn...

Herbs like turmeric, green tea, and berberine-containing plants that you may grow or brew daily a...

Chinese thoroughwax (Bupleurum) has been brewed into medicinal teas across East Asia for centurie...

That shaggy, golden bracket fungus you spot on dying ash and apple trees in autumn isn't just a d...

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

Many of the herbs growing wild around the Mediterranean basin—plants you might recognize from an ...

Rehmannia, the waxy-leafed, crimson-flowered plant sold at Chinese herb markets and grown as a pe...

Herbs you might already grow — astragalus, ginger, licorice root — are now being rigorously valid...

Centuries-old herbal remedies sitting in traditional medicine cabinets worldwide are now being sc...

Every apple, carrot, and bean in your garden packs its cell walls with pectin and other complex c...

Every tomato that sets fruit in your garden depends on a molecular relay—these lipid chains quiet...

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

Herbs like grapevine, Chinese herbal medicines, and berry-producing plants that traditional heale...

The proteins plants pump into their flowers may be doing jobs we haven't imagined yet — and under...

Every high-fiber meal you eat from your garden — the beans, the kale, the winter squash — activel...

Dandelion roots you pull as lawn weeds are loaded with inulin — the same plant fiber now shown to...

Lilac chaste tree thrives in hot, dry conditions and produces long lavender flower spikes that dr...

Galantamine — the only FDA-approved Alzheimer's drug derived directly from a plant — comes from s...

Common selfheal growing in a lawn or sidewalk strip is one of the easiest medicinal wildflowers t...

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

If you've ever reached for a traditional herbal remedy during a gut flare-up, this study is a rem...

Desert plants that survive on almost nothing often pack their tissues with potent defensive compo...

Many of the aromatic plant compounds in your herbal remedies and essential oils are so scarce in ...

Ginger roots, grapes, and broccoli in your garden produce microscopic particles that researchers ...

Fenugreek seeds have been brewed into medicinal teas and curries for millennia, and now the key c...

Plants you grow and eat — spinach, ginger, grapes — are being harvested for nanoscale particles t...

Kudzu — the vine choking forests across the American South — sheds microscopic particles that rew...

Herbs long used in traditional medicine — many of which grow in kitchen gardens or wild hedgerows...

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

Milk thistle growing along your fence or in a sunny patch of disturbed soil has been producing si...

Many of the supplements and functional foods on shelves—vitamins, antioxidants, and plant-derived...

Fermenting plain sugar water into water kefir at home — the same low-tech craft as brewing tepach...

Ribwort plantain growing along roadsides and lawns in Brookfield is one of the most underapprecia...

If you grow lupins or peaches and eat them fresh from the garden, the fats naturally present on t...

Herbs that traditional healers have prescribed for lung conditions for centuries are now being ma...

Plant-derived compounds — the same broad category that includes garlic, thyme oil, and herbal ext...

Shiitake and reishi mushrooms you might grow on a shaded log in your backyard share the same beta...

Every bean plant, lentil row, or nut tree you tend in your garden is producing the kind of protei...

Cannabis plants have been used medicinally for millennia, and scientists are now tracing exactly ...

Farmers in chemically intensive regions are already turning to plants that naturally suppress pes...

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

Medicinal herbs you might grow in a tea garden — astragalus, goji, licorice root — contain powerf...

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

The acerola cherry — a tropical fruit you might find at a Latin market or growing in a warm-clima...

Tiny vesicles shed by the edible plants in your garden — not extracted chemicals, but the plants'...

Tea grown with beneficial soil microbes can produce healthier plants that need fewer pesticides —...

Herbal compounds used in traditional medicine for centuries are now backed by clinical evidence f...

Fermented plant foods — kimchi, miso, sauerkraut — are among the richest sources of the probiotic...

Dozens of the most promising experimental Alzheimer's drugs trace their chemical blueprints to ma...

Sulforaphane, the compound that makes broccoli and other brassicas bitter, is emerging as a genui...

The same protein-disposal machinery that researchers are now targeting for cancer drugs also cont...

Plant-based platforms are now being engineered to manufacture life-saving medicines, meaning the ...

The fermented foods and fiber-rich vegetables you grow or forage feed the same gut microbial comm...

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