According to the World Health Organization, 88% of all countries are estimated to use traditional medicine; more than 40% of pharmaceutical formulations are based on natural products, and many ...
Many common herbal plants, when grown in the garden, are drought tolerant. They are native to Mediterranean countries where summers are dry like our own. The biome or ecosystem of Mediterranean ...
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Bring more pollinators to your garden by growing these herbs with lavender
Lavender's spiky, fragrant purple blooms hold lots of pollen and nectar for hungry pollinators. Pairing your plant with ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...
The German polymath Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess in the High Middle Ages, developed a holistic view of healing ...
Plants have been used as the source of drugs for long ages, and as of today, approximately 70,000 species have been screened for their potential utility as medicines. In recent decades, several ...
Some of the best-known medicines come from poisonous plants. The chemotherapy drug taxol comes from the yew tree, morphine ...
In our own era of mysterious diseases, the supposition that some plants might cure the human organs they most resemble is surfacing once more. Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Flora,” circa 1591.Credit...Erich ...
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