Rosemary has been cherished not only for its aroma that enhances our dishes but also for its medicinal properties. Rosemary is common in the Iberian Peninsula and is a powerful ally for our health, ...

Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s. The researchers involved in the project say they believe the tree species, ...

Scientists are uncovering the healing power of plants with help from an unlikely source: chimpanzees. For years, researchers at the University of Oxford have taken samples of plants favored by injured ...

The field of bioactive compounds from medicinal mushrooms and plants has garnered significant attention due to the increasing ...

A new study concludes that chimpanzees displaying a range of ailments seek out plants with known medicinal properties to treat those ailments. The finding is important because it’s a rare instance ...

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Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. Reading time 3 minutes Humans aren’t the only primates with a ...

For more than 2,000 years, Panax ginseng has been a cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine, renowned for its nourishing and healing properties. In today's world, challenges such as subfertility ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

Source: Safruddin, Armas, Ulil Azhari, Adami, used with permission. The wild Sumatran orangutans of the Suaq Balimbing research area in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, have been the subjects ...