Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Used by Indigenous Americans for thousands of years, rattlesnake master continues its usefulness in the backyard garden as an ...

Researchers have isolated a compound from an Australian desert shrub with a long history of medicinal use by the Indigenous peoples of Australia that could help cancer patients better respond to ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

Chimpanzees exhibit sophisticated self-medication, using plants like "bitter leaf" to combat parasites and rough leaves to ...

Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.

ENCINITAS, Calif. — About 20 to 30 years ago, the use of medicinal plant gardens for drug research slowed down in part because there was no living collection that could be used sustainably or ...