New Web-Based Resource: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
A unique web-based resource about herbs, botanicals, and other products has been launched to provide medical practitioners, as well as the general public, access to comprehensive information about these products.

Ethnobotanist warns of mixing herbs with traditional medications
Many patients ‘self-medicate’ and don’t tell physicians

Ethnobotanist says non-regulated herbs pose risks
Herbal trade tries to self-regulate sans guidelines or punishments

Medical Discoveries From The Forest Will Help Both Indians And Rain Forest Conservation, Cornell Researcher Predicts
Grow anti-malaria plants where malaria is the greatest threat, in thetropics, biologist Eloy Rodriguez tells AAAS audience

Chamomile Tea: New Evidence Supports Health Benefits
For centuries, people who've felt sick or stressed have tried drinking chamomile tea as a medicinal cure-all.

Differences between hospitals account for much of the racial/ethnic treatment differences
Differences between racial/ethnic groups for times to treatment for a heart attack may be largely attributable to the differences between hospitals to which the patients are admitted

New Insights Into Healthful Compounds In Native American Diets
California's role as a national "health food" trendsetter goes back farther than most people suspect -- way back, in fact, when it comes to consumption of a food especially rich in healthy phytochemicals.

The ethnobiology of the Haitian zombi
For many years students of Haitian society have suggested that there is an ethnopharmacological basis for the notorious zombies, the living dead of peasant folklore.

Lowly Weeds May Hold Promise For Curing Host Of Common Health Woes
Unwanted, pulled or poisoned, the lowly weed is sometimes better than its highly touted "herbal" cousins for preventing and curing a host of diseases...

Students' Chemical Ecology Journal Finds Science Behind Indian Folk Medicine
Chemistry -- not bee temperament -- explains the antibiotic value of honey from the mellow insects...