A new scientific review has found that a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine may help protect hair follicles, improve ...

For example, Wes Raup-Konsavage, assistant professor of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at Penn State College of Medicine, and I collaborate with Josh Kellogg, associate professor of ...

In Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and São Paulo State University (UNESP) have conducted a study that confirmed ...

"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 make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using them in painkillers, treatments for disease and household products such as ...

The common yellow commelina, one of the popular plants used to treat children. WikiCommons South Africa’s under-five mortality rate also lags behind the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of reducing ...

If you want to deepen your wellness journey and take it places beyond where conventional approaches will take you, a plant medicine retreat might be the source of holistic support that you’ve been ...

A new review of recent studies shows that chimpanzees use some of the same medicinal plants as humans. In Uganda, the great apes have been observed applying plants with known beneficial phytochemicals ...

With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to humans doesn’t ...