The United States Department of Agriculture notes that our earliest human ancestors used plants to treat injuries, treat illnesses, and calm anxious minds. Since prehistoric times, people have used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Learn more about the history of African American herbalism and its resurgence today. In today’s world of modern medicine and ...

On this episode of Black Health 365, co-hosts Britt Daniels and Jackie Paige welcome Jennifer West for a conversation on herbalism. West is a clinical herbalist who founded Plant Mama Alchemy. She’s ...

Western medicine revolves around the notion of treating symptoms — something that usually requires drugs or a medical procedure of some sort. Yet before the precepts of Western medicine were ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - It's a common Boulder story: Move here to go to school and end up staying. However, in the case of Kat Mackinnon, the school in question was not the University of Colorado.

The Plant Healer’s Path (Plant Healer Press, 2013) addresses topics vital to an empowered, effective herbal practice, including many issues that have not been addressed by mainstream sources. Jesse ...

SOUTH NEWFANE — Herbalism is about autonomy, according to Juliette Carr. "It's promoting autonomy and self-empowerment to prioritize reclaiming lost wisdom," she said. Carr, who is a founding member ...

On the east side of Indianapolis, a school dedicated to teaching folks the practice of foraging, land stewardship and herbalism is showing people how to harness the power of plants all around us.

On a sunny Monday evening, Mama Ravin takes participants along the Detroit Riverwalk to find edible wild plants. Fascination and wonder spread across the group as Ravin points out a spindly white ...

Lucretia VanDyke, author of “African American Herbalism: A Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions,” decided to listen to her plants years ago and has never looked back. Since then, she has dived ...