One sign at the entrance of the Mütter Museum medicinal garden warns “plants can be deadly; do not touch or consume any of the plants in the garden.” It underscores how powerful plants can be, and why ...

Husband-and-wife duo Travis Gumbs and Cynthia Cervantes have officially entered the wellness space with a new brand targeting holistic healing. Medicinal Plant Index, founded this year by Gumbs with ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported ...

Plants and herbs are an integral part of Ayurveda and are used to treat many diseases, weight management and pain relief. These medicinal plants have been in use since ancient times especially in ...

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) plans to establish a divine herbal garden in Tirumala to conserve rare medicinal plants from the Seshachalam forest. This project, costing Rs 4.25 crore, will ...

The workshop that ended on Sunday was organised under the tribal sub-plan of the Ministry of Ayush, was jointly conducted by the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) and Sri ...

In the Indian Himalayan region, one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots, 1,748 medicinal plant species have been identified. But with increased commercial collection, unmonitored trade, habitat loss ...

The Qatari wilderness have a multitude plants and herbs with medicinal properties that need to be explored, according to Ali Talib al-Hinzab, a pioneer of the Qatari environment participating at the ...