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.

In this conversation with Ridgecrest Herbals CEO Matt Warnock shares the history of the company and its mission to help ...

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 ...

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 ...

As “modern medicine” increasingly relies on surgery, radiation and drugs for most conditions, a fair percentage of the ...

This practical study of the medicinal qualities of plants and herbs, including a study ... compiled the Al-Tasrif—The Method of Medicine—a 30-volume encyclopedia that documented accounts ...

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 ...

But there are also natural anxiety remedies like exercise, meditation and breathing exercises that may be able to address your symptoms. Anxiety -- in small doses -- is a normal part of human life.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a ...

The Golden Age of Islam, from the 8th to the 14th century, marked a period of unparalleled intellectual and scientific growth ...