A compound found in African wormwood—a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness—could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new study published ...

A compound found in African wormwood — a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness — could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new study that is ...

The artemisia annua plant, also known as sweet wormwood, has long provided a key ingredient in treating malaria The World Health Organization (WHO) is to test a malaria drug on Covid patients ...

One of the country's rarest and most threatened wild plants has "astounded" conservationists by thriving on an industrial-estate nature reserve. The field wormwood plants grow on one of the ...

Bees and wasps are attracted to flowers and plants based on smells and pheromones, and wormwood gives off a scent that sends ...

Conservationists said 2019 was a "fantastic year" for the enigmatic beetle, named after its nocturnal habit of feasting on the ripening seed heads of the field wormwood plant, a fellow rare ...

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