Natural Medicines, Herbal, Homeopathy and Home Remedies

DAVIS – Farmers, ranchers and agricultural professionals are eligible for funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program.
Grant recipients receive up to $15,000 as individuals and up to $30,000 for groups of three or more working together on a project.  Funding can be requested for projects related [...]

DAVIS–A two-year pilot research grant awarded to the Bruce Hammock laboratory at UC Davis may determine if omega 3-fatty acids, commonly found in fish oils, can help reverse a chronic inflammatory disease of the kidneys.

Collaborating on the multidisciplinary project are researcher and grant author Angela Zivkovic of the [...]

DAVIS–“Girls, where’s your mother?”
Bee breeder and geneticist Susan Cobey, who leads the bee breeding program at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Biology Research Facility at the UC Davis, scours a hive for the queen bee.
Her trained eye quickly spots the elongated queen. Dozens of worker bees circle the queen. [...]

A compound found in broccoli and related vegetables may have more health-boosting tricks up its sleeves, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Veggie fans can already point to some cancer-fighting properties of 3,3′-diindolylmethane (DIM), a chemical produced from the compound indole-3-carbinol when Brassica vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage [...]

Walter Leal

DAVIS — Walter Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology at UC Davis recently received the International Society of Chemical Ecology’s 2007 Silverstein-Simeone Lecture Award for his innovative research on how insects detect smells and communicate within their species.
Leal, a noted chemical ecologist, received the award at the scientific society’s [...]

In between the cotton candy and the corn dogs, visitors to the California State Fair can find solutions for home and garden pests using touch-screen kiosks developed by the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program.
Look for the kiosks at the [...]

UC Davis has released the first in a new series of annual reports designed to give the non-scientific community an unprecedented compendium of information that documents changing water quality and weather conditions in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
This “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2007″ presents, in easy-to-read charts, a summary of tens of [...]

DAVIS–When University of California, Davis, forensic entomologist and doctoral student Rebecca O’Flaherty teaches art workshops, she doesn’t bring brushes, palette knives or color shapers.
She doesn’t bring easels or canvas, either.
She brings white copier paper, forceps, and cups filled with non-toxic, water-based paint.
And, oh yes, she brings maggots.
Maggots? O’Flaherty and her students paint with [...]

A book by University of California Cooperative Extension plant pathology farm advisor Steven Koike titled “Vegetable Diseases: A Colour Handbook” is now available from Manson Publishing Ltd. in London.
The publication, co-authored by Peter Gladders of Cambridge, U.K., and Albert Paulus, plant pathologist emeritus of UC Riverside, focuses on diseases of field- and greenhouse-grown vegetable crops [...]

In April, HRF President Rob McCaleb’s international herb development work took him to Albania, where a much-needed effort to promote sustainable use of wild medicinal plants is underway. Wild harvest of medicinal [...]