Many scientists raise a skeptical eyebrow to traditional herbal treatments, but a new phylogenetic study suggests that such remedies may hold promise—for both medicine and drug development. In the ...

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 ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — Herbal medicine is difficult to produce on an industrial scale. A team of bioengineers have now manipulated the cellular machinery in a species of yeast so that one such molecule ...

Treatment: A 5,000-year-old system designed to treat a variety of ailments, based on a combination of five varieties of herbs - pungent, sour, sweet, bitter and salty - which are boiled in water.

Sun Ten Pharmaceutical has established itself as a leading global manufacturer of high-quality herbal remedies by merging ...

The popularity of herbal remedies is threatening to wipe out up to 10,000 species of wild plants, an environmental expert claimed today. Dr Alan Hamilton, of the World Wildlife Fund, said that a ...

Despite the long history of Aristolochia use in herbal remedies, evidence of the plants’ inherent danger emerged only recently. In the early 1990s, women who had received Aristolochia treatments at a ...