A team of scientists at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew has embarked on the mammoth task of creating a single database of the world’s medicinal plant species. Our knowledge of beneficial botany is dispersed across many sources, and is complicated with most species having a variety of different names. The team at Kew says its work will help pharmacists and regulators, as well as relevant scientific research. To date, the resource covers an estimated 18,000 different…
Project aims to end ‘ambiguity’ of plant-based medicine
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