Brush up on the potential health benefits of herbs by exploring the scientific data featured in Tim Johnson's interactive electronic herbal database. Visitors can search for information by action, ailment, body area, common name, indigenous use, and other criteria. More of the same is available at HerbMed where you can search for information from controlled clinical trials, case reports, descriptions of toxic or adverse effects, and the biochemistry of action. Penicillin More than just a by-product of moldy bread, penicillin is a powerful antibiotic derived from the penicillium fungus. Medicinal Plant Databases Milk comes from cows, bacon from pigs, and medicines from plants.
Some links even feature colorful photographs of fruits, trees, and cultivated fields.
When placed under pet beds, it wards off fleas. Learn more about the practical uses, distribution of, and occurrence of this aromatic botanical conifer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Web site. The process is called phytoremediation. At this site, you can read a high-powered 1997 report prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency highlighting the use of particular plants in removing contamination from soil and shallow groundwater, and detailing the role played by poplar trees in phytoremediation treatment technology. In the fall of 2000, U.S. farmers harvested their first crop of soybeans genetically altered with Monsanto's chemical herbicide called Roundup.