When strolling through a garden center or flipping through a plant catalog, you’ll often notice two distinct names on each tag: a common name and a botanical name. While the common name feels friendly ...

Recently, Patanjali added another feather to its cap with the World Herbal Encyclopedia (WHE), a well-structured, ...

Botanical names might look like a jumble of Latin, but they’re actually more useful (and less scary) than most people think. Unlike common names, which can change from place to place, botanical names ...

Tulsi, widely known as Holy Basil, is a treasured plant in Indian homes, worshipped in temples, brewed in teas, and trusted in home remedies. But beyond its cultural and medicinal fame lies a more ...

What’s a medicinal plant? There is no single definition of a medicinal plant, yet communities around the world have used ...

The German polymath Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess in the High Middle Ages, developed a holistic view of healing while working in her monastery’s herb garden and caring for the sick in its ...