Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of medicine.

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Muira Puama (MP), often referred to as the "Viagra of the Amazon," is a medicinal plant traditionally used as a neuromuscular tonic to address conditions such as paralysis, impotence, dyspepsia, ...

If this rate of deforestation continues, the Amazon will reach its tipping point and will no longer be able to sustain itself as a rainforest and the world's largest carbon sink. The effects would be ...

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Bank of America Corp BAC invested $205 million in exchange for tax credits from ethanol producer Harvestone Low Carbon Partners’ carbon capture project at a North Dakota ethanol plant.

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Years of scouring the bush and breeding work at The University of Queensland have resulted in new varieties of a native Australian plant valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry. Postdoctoral ...

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