Category: Plants & Medicine
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Our Pharmaceuticals Are Affecting Our Crop Plants
The drugs we release into the environment are likely to have a significant impact on plant growth, finds a new study
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Himalayan Farmers partner with nonprofit to cultivate medicinal plants
With the help of advisors from the Mountain Institute, Nepalese residents learn cultivation skills needed to move their medicinal plant enterprises from foraging to farming — an environmental and economic win-win.
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Plant-based gel can stop traumatic bleeding in seconds
Like Lego building blocks for the body. The building blocks in this case are plant-based polymers pulled from the cell walls of a plant that basically reassemble onto whatever you put them next to (skin, for example), which helps clot blood in seconds.
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Jasmine Fragrance May Be The Best Thing For You
When the effects of the jasmine odor were compared to the effects of the lavender odor and the non-odor control condition, the dispensing of jasmine led to greater sleep efficiency and reduced sleep movement. There were no differences in the total amount of sleep, thus the jasmine condition led to a greater quality rather than quantity of sleep. When the participants woke, those who breathed the jasmine rated their level of anxiety and vigor lower, and performed cognitive tests more rapidly.
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New Oilseed Crop Offers Anti-Cancer and Nutritional Promise
This seed meal is a promising nutritional supplement because its bioactive ingredients increase the liver’s ability to clear foreign chemicals and oxidative products. And that gives it potential anti-cancer benefit,
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A List Of Potentially Dangerous Herbs Used Medicinally
The objective of this research was to create a list of potentially life-threatening herbs by rating the most serious side-effects of herb consumption reported in the literature, and to list herbs causing these rated conditions-liver toxicity, kidney toxicity, cardiotoxicity, cancer, and death
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Fruit Chemicals Can Reduce After Effects Of Heart Attacks & Strokes
Scientists have identified chemicals found in some everyday fruit that could protect vital organs from long-term damage following a heart attack or stroke, according to new research carried out in mice. The researchers now hope the chemicals will provide a starting point for developing new injectable drugs that could be used to prevent some of the long-term damage caused by heart attack and stroke.
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine are exciting and revolutionary multidisciplinary fields at the center of many current debates on culturally appropriate management of the biodiversity and the human and animal health. The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is a very timely initiative to foster a common platform devoted to scientists, practitioners, environmentalists, and policy makers for investigating cultural perceptions and cognition of the natural world and of disease and illness, as well as their meaning for comprehensive environmental and public health policies.”
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What The Chemicals In Chocolate Could Do For Aging Brains (What COULDN’T They Do???)
Cocoa flavanols have been previously linked with enhanced hippocampus blood flow in younger people. The increase in blood flow in older adults may help prevent age-related memory decline, scientists suggest
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Plant Reveals New Molecule Which May Revolutionize Biotechnology
The properties of the new molecule make it a very useful tool in protein biotechnology and the development of new peptide and protein therapeutics, including anti-cancer agents.