News

HerbFeast is back in Wexford this year - full information and ticket options can be found at the official website:https://herbfeast.ie/ Book early to avoid disappointment!

I will be speaking at this online event on April 7th 2025. If you interested in signing up for the event, please visit:https://weaving-remembrance.mykajabi.com/a/2148071744/TYD2yDMr

How the history of medicine, pharmacy, and herbalism became separate is complex—a modern phenomenon. Ours is a world requiring precise and well-defined categories for everything. For that reason, Old English medicine as we read it in its own words may not seem to be...

Introduction Approximately 10 million annual deaths may be associated with hypertension. Adverse effects and non-response to pharmacological treatment limit therapy to a significant proportion of patients; hence, treatment alternatives seem necessary. Our objective...

This narrative review describes the provenance and chemical composition of Vitex agnus-castus, as well as the currently available knowledge concerning its action. To search the related articles, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS databases between the...

Medicinal Plant Names Services A global nomenclatural indexing and reference service for medicinal plants aimed at those involved in global health, regulation and research....

Throughout history, alchemists, naturalists, and pharmacists have tried to explore the world around them, searching for crude drugs and rituals that would make immortality possible. According to some scholars many may have created preparations under their own name in...

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a peaceful break over the holidays. Welcome to 2025, the year to prioritise your health! 2024 prices will be held. Despite a 40% increase on certain supplies and mounting costs in general, I am keeping prices unchanged going into...

In the 1950s we walked to school and played in the fields, often using plants in our games. I remember playing with yarrow’s pale-pastel confetti petals when very young, and later delighting to discover that its scientific name, Achillea millefolium L., refers to the...

As the U.S. begins to escalate their response against H5N1 bird flu, we will likely see a push for more unsafe and ineffective countermeasures. The Biopharmaceutical Complex is currently preparing bird flu mRNA injections developed by Moderna, CEPI-funded H5N1...