Kudzu vine is an invasive species that can quickly take over your backyard. This weed was introduced to the United States in ...

It sure seemed like a good idea at the time. In the 1930s, farmers and government agents across the American South sowed fields with a popular new Asian import called kudzu that promised to help fight ...

Kudzu, whose scientific name is Pueraria mirfica ... down to a group of compounds found in high concentrations within the plant, called isoflavones. In China, it has been used to treat alcoholism ...