Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

New research published in Communications Biology has uncovered the earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant ...

The growing global population of elderly individuals has led to a dramatic rise in chronic diseases, including neurocognitive ...

Karpuravalli is also known as Indian Borage. Its leaves are boiled to make herbal tea which relieves cold, soothes throat, ...

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the ...

A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal ...

A diet that replaces animal products with plant-based foods—whether unprocessed or ultra-processed—and includes soybeans can ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have observed wild chimpanzees in Uganda using medicinal plants to treat wounds. It’s an ...

A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia. A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient ...

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods—even those defined as “unhealthy” by the plant-based diet index—is an ...

A 2021 review of 32 randomised controlled trials involving nearly 5,200 people with chronic pain, examined the effects of ...