Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

An international group of researchers led by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have uncovered the earliest ...

Scientists have uncovered 15,000-year-old medicinal herbs, shedding light on Stone Age health practices that echo today’s ...

The boom is the result of a discovery by drug traffickers that a plant commonly found growing wild in parts of Afghanistan, ephedra, can be used to create the key component of meth: ephedrine.

The identified herbs, especially the “Ephedra” plant, are the foundation of this research. The researchers examined Ephedra’s ...

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