However, not many people understand just how much the people of Hawai‘i rely on the environment for overall health and wellness. To promote the health and wellness benefits of Native Hawaiian Plants, ...

These plants are alien, nonnative species brought to Hawaii by the Polynesians as they migrated across Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. These are referred to as canoe plants.

He also noticed a trend among patients who’d grown up in rural areas. When they reminisced about their younger days, spent growing food and harvesting medicinal plants in their communities, they ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

The land has breadfruit, koa and banana trees, medicinal plants and taro, organic gardens, low-slung buildings, and a tiny apothecary where Ms. Jackson, who is also a native Hawaiian medicine ...