In the evolving landscape of plant medicine, terpenes have emerged from relative obscurity to become recognized as crucial therapeutic compounds. These aromatic molecules, responsible for the ...

Gemmotherapy is a form of botanical medicine that uses the embryonic stem cells of plants. These cells are harvested from the ...

Foxglove, a flowering plant long feared for its toxicity, became an unlikely source of a widely studied heart drug. Digoxin, ...

A common wildflower used in folk medicine may help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and boost last-resort drugs to fight ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Medicinal plants are everywhere, and to use them you need knowledge of their properties and effects on humans. Clinical herbalist Robin Baire, is one person that has learned to unlock the power of the ...

Researchers bio-engineered a tobacco plant to produce five key psychedelic compounds for therapeutic use.

"My registered name is Hemerson Dantas dos Santos, but you can add ‘Pataxó Hãhãhãi’ at the end, which is the Indigenous people I belong to." This is how the interview began, conducted by Medscape’s ...

In Santa Marta, a small village in Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous region, aging shamans are seeking to preserve and pass down knowledge of traditional medicinal plants. Village members say knowledge ...

Armas / Suaq Project When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and ...

• From Peyote conservation to Religious Freedom, the Plant Medicine Track honors ancestral traditions, uplifts Indigenous leadership, and promotes ethical and reciprocal relationships with the ...