How Nature’s Pharmacy Is Becoming a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry For millennia, medicinal plants have served as humanity’s first pharmacy. Today, they are entering a new scientific era as artificial intelligence (AI), genomics and advanced analytical technologies transform traditional herbal remedies into evidence-based therapeutics. Rather than competing with conventional pharmaceuticals, medicinal plants are increasingly providing the foundation [...] The post From the Ebers Papyrus to AI appeared first on The Middle East Observer .