A herb touted by Madagascar's government as healing coronavirus is undergoing tests by a group of international researchers. WHO warns that no scientific studies yet prove Artemisia works. Scientists ...

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has emerged as one of biggest cheerleaders for a herbal tea called Covid-Organics, touted as an “African cure” for ...

Miniscule mugwort flowers are this extremely invasive plant’s last—and very effective—hurrah before frost arrives and turns ...

When Cameroon recorded its first COVID-19 case on March 6 in Yaounde, the capital, public health officials reassured citizens that the government would take swift measures to contain the spread of the ...

African researchers are raising funds to carry out their own clinical trials on the artemisia plant to investigate its potential for treatment of Covid-19. A herbal tea based on artemisia extract has ...

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina gave a long, televised address last weekend praising the benefits of artemisia, a herbal remedy increasingly promoted as a treatment for Covid-19. It's also ...

Most Coloradans put their herb gardens to bed this time of year, but for Shelley Torgove, herbs are a year-round passion whose joys she appreciates even more during cold and flu season. A clinical ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is to test a malaria drug on Covid patients, which is derived from the artemisia plant used in Madagascar. The African island nation attracted a lot of attention ...