Big pharmaceutical and herbal companies are producing drugs and compounds from a wide range of agricultural resources such as golden seal, lemon grass, citrus fruits and peels, especially orange peels ...

According to the World Health Organization, 88% of all countries are estimated to use traditional medicine; more than 40% of pharmaceutical formulations are based on natural products, and many ...

Wilfred Ndirangu never thought chia — a herb — would make her money when she started growing it in 2017. Back then, her father who had been diagnosed with kidney problems, was told to take chia seeds ...

With learning institutions closed, Joseph Mwangi, a student at Egerton University, spends most of his time at his herbs farm. A pleasant smell of a cocktail of herbs welcomes you to his eight-acre ...

The growing global population of elderly individuals has led to a dramatic rise in chronic diseases, including neurocognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. These conditions, which are ...

This story is part of a partnership between the Montgomery Advertiser and the Living Democracy program at Auburn University. Now in its 13th year, the program disperses students across rural Alabama ...

New research on using controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to grow plants with medicinal properties could lead to production methods that will increase one anti-cancer compound naturally produced ...

The Patanjali Mega Food & Herbal Park, established by Patanjali in MIHAN, Nagpur, will house Asia’s largest orange processing ...