Plants benefit us in so many ways. From ornamentals bringing joy, to crops making delicious meals, and herbs adding fragrance ...

Enhanced technologies and research standards for plant research could help strengthen the contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to drug discovery. Plants can be frustratingly inconsistent.

By Spoorthy Raman Vietnam and China, the two largest markets for traditional medicine (TM) that uses wild plants and animals, ...

Artemisia herba-alba shows promise in combating colorectal cancer, offering new hope through its powerful medicinal ...

The Bill, introduced by environment minister Bhupender Yadav amid a din, also aims to reduce pressure on wild medicinal plants by encouraging cultivation of such plants and facilitate transfer of ...

Today, herbalism and wild plant foraging has become an increasingly popular alternative to modern medicine. Herbal medicine is still widely used among American-Indian, Chinese and European populations ...

Plants are and have long been a natural source of chemical products with therapeutic properties; many of the earliest, most prominent, and still regularly utilized drugs were either discovered in ...

The Kobe University start-up Photo-on-Demand Chemical Co. Ltd. demonstrated that it can produce methane from sewage to refine it into pharmaceutical raw materials and other useful chemicals. For this, ...

Scientists synthesized inaoside A from mushrooms, unlocking its bioactive potential for functional foods and medicines.

Ghana is leading the way in implementing community-based programs that protect traditional herbal knowledge while promoting ...