Many plants that people can grow at home have a long history in alternative medicine. Peppermint, thyme, lavender, and more are simple to grow and may help ease certain health symptoms.

Thanks to new analytical tools, Chinese herbal medicines are attracting a new burst of R&D activity, as Jane Qiu reports. You have full access to this article via your institution. In the past few ...

Kitasato University’s Hiroshi Odaguchi and his team are investigating ‘kampo’, a traditional medicine regime developed ... Some 80% of the herbal plants used in kampo are imported from ...

The internet has fostered the growth in herbal remedies, which are often cheaper than doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals. A patient can read about a traditional remedy online, order the herbs on ...

All definitions in this encyclopedia are not only consistent in style because they are written by one person, Alan Freedman, but they get clearer all the time because they are routinely edited for ...

This useful study by Gao et al identifies Hspa2 as a heterogeneous transcript in the early embryo and proposes a plausible mechanism showing interactions with Carm1. The authors propose that ...

Although it isn’t technically an herb, green tea and its main polyphenol compound epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) are often included in literature reviews focusing on herbal remedies for liver ...

Herbal tea, or leung cha in Cantonese, is a concoction of medicinal herbs based on traditional Chinese medicine formulas. In 2006, herbal tea was selected as part of Hong Kong’s intangible ...

Herbs were widely used as remedies for all sorts of illnesses. These remedies were often written down in books known as herbals, with pictures of the plants and explanations of how they should be ...

Short articles that focus on some of the key challenges, issues or developments in natural products research. They can be "opinion" style articles, which give the author's perspective on a particular ...

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