African Medicinal Plants

Medical cannabis company donates $1 million to explore plant’s healing potential Media Release | June 8, 2015 Herb Dhaliwal, Chairman of National Green Biomed with Julio Montaner, M-J Milloy and Claudette Cardinal. Photo: Martin Dee, UBC Medical marijuana producer National Green Biomed Ltd. has committed $1 million to the University of British Columbia to allow researchers to study the therapeutic effects of cannabis. The company has made an application and is awaiting approval from Health Canada to produce and sell medical marijuana. Click to enlarge. Photo: Martin Dee The contribution will support research by assistant professor of medicine M-J Milloy, who is studying marijuana’s potential to treat HIV, and alleviate pain and nausea caused by acute illness and medications used to combat HIV and AIDS. Milloy, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the UBC Division of AIDS and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, was the lead investigator on a study pub...

Iran opens first herb museum containing over 1,700 herb samples Home Iran Economy Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:31PM File photo shows workers collecting medicinal herbs in Iran's West Azarbaijan Province.   ·       ·       ·           Iran has inaugurated its first herb museum, also known has herbarium, containing more than 1,700 samples of various herbs. According to Iranian media, the herbarium was inaugurated at the Shahid Beheshti University in capital city, Tehran, on Wednesday. The opening ceremony was attended by top officials of the Shahid Beheshti University as well as deputy head of Iran's Tourism Bank for marketing. According to the report, the herbarium which is affiliated to the Shahid Beheshti University’s Medicinal Plants and Drugs Research Institute, contains a valuable trove of over 1,700 herb samples. The herbarium is internationally registered and specializes in Iran's medicinal...

Wonderful medicinal plants   Tuesday, June 09, 2015   By   EDNA GARDE EDIBLE LANDSCAPE HAVE you realized how wise is the Lord for creating “all things nice and wonderful?” That’s a line from a poem I remember way back in grade school. Wonderful! That is how I consider the plants God created from the beginning. So wonderful are the plants around us that each of them has its own purpose. This is what I contemplate upon finding my treasures of knowledge at home. What I retrieved from my files is the manual of my training some years ago, during the hype of organic farming and herbal medicine. During that training entitled, ”Prospects and Challenges for Production, Processing, and Marketing of Philippine Medicinal Plants,” herbal medicine and natural or homeopathy were already beginning to gain momentum, through mostly the non-government organizations and private practitioners. In fact, our main lecturer on that training was no less than the forme...