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Indigenous languages are endangered in many parts of the world. A study looks at the connections between Indigenous languages and medicinal plant species. More than 75 percent of medicinal plants were ...

Satere-Mawe indigenous leader Valdiney Satere, 43, collects caferana, a native plant of the Amazon rainforest used as medicinal herb, to treat people showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus. AFP via ...

EAST GRAND FORKS – Native North Dakota plants used in the practice of traditional Indigenous medicine will be the subject of a talk by Christy Goulet starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at East ...

Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long been aware that rainforest dwellers have an astounding knowledge of medicinal plants. For thousands of years, ...

A bed of yarrow blooms in KU's Native Medicinal Plant Research Garden, just north of Lawrence. A tour of the garden will be held 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 21, 2019, for the summer solstice. On the ...

HAGATNA, Guam — Traditional Chamorro healer Bernice Nelson and her apprentices visited the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station wilderness Wednesday to harvest medicinal plants from an area ...

Native medicinal plants will be the subject of the next Discover Nature program at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum. “Medicinal Plants for Gardens of the Southeast” featuring Jennifer Blanchard will take ...

Ancient Puebloans left structures, pottery, tools, graves and countless other artifacts in Utah’s Bears Ears region, but they also left plant communities, rich with nutritional and healing properties, ...