The Director, Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, St. Benedict Monastery, Ewu, Edo State, Revd Father Anslem Adodo, answers the question on natural plants for physical wellness. Mistletoe, ...

When my husband was a boy, he would go with his father in early December to a cousin’s farm in southern Maryland to cut down a Christmas tree and shoot mistletoe out of the tops of oak trees with a ...

Over nine hundred species of mistletoe are known, and the plant itself is a source of nourishment for a great many species of animals and birds. The fruits of mistletoe are drupes, that is large seeds ...

What sort of plant is it? Mistletoe is definitely not your typical shrub – it’s a parasite that attacks living trees. Technically, mistletoes – there are over 1,000 species found throughout the world ...

Mistletoe (Viscum Album) extract can lower blood pressure safely and lower serum triglycerides. Triglycerides are a type of fat (lipid) found in the blood. When one eats, the body converts any ...

IT should be recognized that the Almighty in His infinite goodness and mercy had from the beginning of time, provided for each human race with those endowed with special abilities and fits to be used ...

During the holidays, mistletoe is famous for helping couples sneak a smooch under a strategically hung sprig. But long before Christ was born, Druids, Greeks and other ancients knew the plant as a ...

Eastern or oak mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum) is a native plant found in the canopies of trees throughout South Carolina. Phoradendron is Greek for “tree thief.” As the name suggests, oak ...

Traveling Interstate 40 this time of year, you’re likely to spy some bright green globes high up in otherwise leafless trees. This is very likely mistletoe, the legendary plant adored for romance at ...