The San Diego Botanic Garden expands its collection of medicinal plants four-fold as scientists learn to harness their power.

For example, pharmaceutical ... of accuracy that you would need for a medicinal drug,” she explains. “A common mistake would be to study different plant species in the same family, such ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals ... pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout ...

For example, they suspect a kampo finding known ... for use by doctors and practitioners. Some 80% of the herbal plants used in kampo are imported from China, from where Japan’s practice was ...

Chives are one of the heartiest herbs I’ve ever seen. Even in the harsh winters of my hometown, Brooklyn, each spring our chives would resurrect from the frozen solid soil of a planter box on our ...