Scientists at the University of California-Riverside recently discovered a chemical that plants produce that could help prevent infections in medical patients. Science Daily reported on the findings, ...

Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like tomorrow’s medicines. By turning leaves and cultured cells into ...

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

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

Some of the best-known medicines come from poisonous plants. The chemotherapy drug taxol comes from the yew tree, morphine ...

"When a child has a fever, crush a 'candlenut' (fiyaai [Aleurites moluccanus]). Add water to the mixture, and apply it to the child's body. The fever will go down." This healing formula doesn't come ...