When 120 elderly people who had suffered a stroke were given conventional treatment or Ginkgo biloba extract, the ginkgo group had better improvement in NIFSS stroke severity scores.

A wild orangutan named Rakus may have just rewritten what we know about animal medicine. In a groundbreaking first, researchers observed him treating a facial wound with a medicinal vine—deliberately chewing and applying it like a natural salve. The wound healed without infection, offering powerful insight into the roots of herbal healing.