Backyard Butterfly Weed
By Kaila Blevins Based on the historical texts I read, the seeds and roots of butterfly weed were used in...
By Kaila Blevins Based on the historical texts I read, the seeds and roots of butterfly weed were used in...
By Kaila Blevins While on a volunteer trip in Orlando, Florida, I was desperate for bug spray. In the middle...
By Debbie Boutelier, HSA Past President & GreenBridgesTM Chair It’s summer and the living is easy for our pollinators. There...
By Maryann Readal Vanilla is The Herb Society of America’s Herb of the Month for December. We can easily conjure...
By William “Bill” Varney Here are several reasons to grow lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), the lemony herb in your garden:...
By Beth Schreibman-Gehring, Chairman of Education for The Western Reserve Herb Society unit of The Herb Society of America I...
The use of plants for healing purposes predates recorded history and forms the origin of much of modern medicine. Many conventional drugs originate from plant sources: a century ago, most of the few effective drugs were plant-based. Examples include aspirin (from willow bark), dioxin (from foxglove), quinine (from cinchona bark), and morphine (from the opium poppy). The development of drugs from plants continues, with drug companies engaged in large-scale pharmacologic screening of herbs.
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Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah), a once exotic whole grain,…
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