Herbal teas and tisanes provide a number of nutritional and medicinal benefits. Here are six herbs you can grow indoors to ...

Gardening writer JACKIE WARBURTON is enjoying the colour from a new annual herb plant that she reckons is easy to grow. The fast-growing annual Amaranth caudatus is a new herb plant I’m trying this ...

In traditional Chinese medicine, malva nuts are known as Pangdahai, often used in tea as a sore throat remedy, similar to adding ginger or lemon. A sniffling person pops the small dried nut in hot ...

The root of elecampane is rich in compounds like inulin, helenin, and alantolactone that support respiratory health. These ...

If you love fresh vegetables and herbs without the stress of replanting every season, consider these perennial plants in your ...

The use of traditional medicines, primarily derived from plants, is as old as civilization, and it has been used or is still ...

When you’re feeling awful because of a cold, you just want something to fix you—if not to cure you, at least to help you ...

A lot of us have a cough now, right? Maybe you were sick a couple of weeks ago and are better, but the coughing just won’t go ...

When the treating doctor is asked for a remedy, their response might include foods, herbs, and even prescription medications ...

Anecdotic reports from the ancient world suggest that silphium resin was used to treat coughs ... in the plant’s habitat. Roman landlords would fence off extensive meadows where the herb ...

Ripple’s work is an intriguing mixture of scherenschnitte, family biography and anecdotes, and recipes using plants for medicinal purposes. Here is one of the Raub family recipes for coughs and ...

A nut used in herbal tea has become a hydrogel perfect ... the unexplored properties and unexplored resources of natural plants." Sun hopes the new, naturally derived hydrogel will provide a ...