An indigenous tribe that lives deep in the Amazon is putting its encyclopedic knowledge of the jungle into writing for the first time ever. With the help of an American NGO and a local publishing ...

A 109-volume World Herbal Encyclopedia by Acharya Balkrishna documents 50,000 medicinal plants, blending ancient wisdom.

Acharya Balkrishna's World Herbal Encyclopedia, a massive 111-volume work, compiles global plant and ethnomedical data. It encompasses 50,000 plant species, numerous languages, and healing practices, ...

Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to fevers. A new study by Harvard researchers reveals the deep roots of that ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — About 20 to 30 years ago, the use of medicinal plant gardens for drug research slowed down in part because there was no living collection that could be used sustainably or ...

Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu receives funding from the National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), Young Affiliate of the African Academy of ...

Jeremiah Waweru Gathirwa receives funding from: Internal Research Grants of the Kenya Medical Research Institute and further funding from the International Foundation for Science Ruth Monyenye ...

A study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that a large proportion of existing medicinal plant knowledge is linked to threatened Indigenous languages. In a regional study on the Amazon, ...

Acharya Balkrishna's monumental 111-volume World Herbal Encyclopedia offers an audacious compilation of global botanical, ethnomedical, and healing traditions. This ambitious work, featuring extensive ...