A plant used in Brazilian medicine has scientific potential to help people with arthritis and other inflammatory conditions.

A study reveals that the Latin American jatobá plant has powerful anti-inflammatory compounds in its bark, leaves, and seeds.

A group of Brazilian researchers has confirmed the effectiveness of the traditional Alternanthera littoralis plant, known as ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to claim lives, UC Irvine researchers have identified a plant extract that may help fight opiate addiction. The COVID-19 pandemic has further worsened the opioid ...

Alternanthera littoralis, commonly called Joseph’s Coat, is native to Brazil’s coastal regions and has a long history of use in treating microbial infections and parasitic diseases. Scientists in ...

In the first posting of this two-part blog, we described how plants and animals engaged in a coevolutionary process, in which each developed defensive measures against the other, in a cyclic manner (1 ...

The recent outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, has put a large burden on the healthcare systems of many countries globally. Although about 80% of ...

Research from Israel has illustrated pure CBD wasn’t as effective as at alleviating pain as extracts from the flowers of a high CBD strain. The extract from the high CBD strain contained 17.9 percent ...