By Paarth Mathur ✐ While Europe's 19th-century surgeons struggled with a 50% survival rate for skull surgeries, the ancient ...

Photograph by Florilegius/Album Scientific studies of coca’s medicinal ... The Inca system for growing and harvesting coca leaves involved many steps. The plants were grown in clear-cut fields ...

The most (in)famous medicinal plant, though, is coca. Coca was domesticated thousands of years ago and was sacred to the Inca. Known almost exclusively today as the source of cocaine, one of the ...