A popular folk remedy made from a tree resin might have dangerous effects on cholesterol levels despite laboratory experiments suggesting otherwise, a study found. The research focused on pills made ...

Guggul is the common name for the flowering myrrh tree (Commiphora mukul or Commiphora wightii), native to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Called the Indian bdellium, it is a small flowering plant ...

A tree resin used in India for 2,000 years as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments has been found by modern researchers to be effective in controlling high cholesterol. The sap from a tree known in ...

I recently addressed the students of a women’s college regarding biodiversity, sustainable development and alternate medicine. Issues were raised about how our cultural diversity was slowly being lost ...

Some say a herbal drug called guggul made from myrrh tree resin contains substances which could be good for cholesterol levels. But a study shows that guggul raises the bad form of cholesterol by up ...

WASHINGTON -- For more than 2,000 years, healers in India have used a tree resin as a folk medicine to treat a variety of ailments. Modern researchers now find it effective in controlling high ...

This sticky resin was so valued by ancient healers of India that the small tree that provides the medicine is now endangered. The fragrant, myrrh-like guggul delighted the senses in perfumes and ...

The Guggul tree is nothing short of legendary. The apparently unassuming shrub that dots the deserts and hills in this part of the world holds immense medicinal value. It has been used in Ayurveda, a ...