The Maoists mean business
So does government, in a rush for profits from a medicinal herb
Hitting malaria with herbs
A Chinese medicinal plant known as long ago as 168 BC has been found successful in checking malaria, which is becoming increasingly resistant to …
Ask the villager before the researcher
Nigerian pastoralists have been found to be a storehouse of valuable information on the value of plants.
Lessons animals teach
How animals treat themselves with various plants provide medicinal leads to scientists.
Deworming pill
VANISHING HERBS
MUSK MAGIC
Mango goes medicinal
LIFE SAVING PLANTS
Patent dispute
A US firm has filed a patent for a jaundice-curing medicinal plant, found in south India
Fungal menace
The medicinal neem tree is under attack from an hitherto unknown fungus
New Jersey-based company get patent rights on karela, brinjal
CSIR to provide information about Indian herbs to create awareness
Root cures
A dedicated group of botanists, ayurvedic practitioners and pharmacologists are showing rural Keralites that all the medicines they need, grow in …
No penny for the Onges?
The discovery of a generation-old plant extract used by Onges in The Andarnans has patent-hungry profiteers jostling their way down There The …
The piracy continues
Gossamer gifts
Genesis of a crisis
The treasure hunt
Vanishing species
The Indian subcontinent is set to lose about 1,500 species of precious plants
Herbs face extinction
Uprooting spree
When the hills turn blue
... it is the elusive kurinji flowering in the Western Ghats, blossoming faithfully every 12 years
Drinking success
While Indians rant and rave against biopiracy, Brahmi, innovatively packaged, becomes a household name in the US. In India, manufacturers …
Now, isabgol
In the wake of growing demand in the West, multinational companies are attempting to patent isabgol
The price of life