The bounty of the growing season is on full display this month and it can be difficult to figure out how to use everything from the garden this time of year. One overlooked solution: making a cup of ...

STORY: Scientists are using AI to find potential new medicines - in plants. They say artificial intelligence can predict which unexplored plant species might hold potential for novel treatments. The ...

Stingless bees are renowned for their delicious and medicinal honey. Many people, like those in the Peruvian Amazon, rely heavily on the honey from stingless bees to treat infections and heal wounds.

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 ...

Husband-and-wife duo Travis Gumbs and Cynthia Cervantes have officially entered the wellness space with a new brand targeting holistic healing. Medicinal Plant Index, founded this year by Gumbs with ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported ...

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a Sumatran orangutan they’d affectionately named Rakus carefully treating a ...