Frank Fletcher with Fletchers Family Farm growing rare and endangered plants like Hoodia that have health benefits. The farm is also giving plants away for free.

Has anyone tried this product before? How did you find it to be? Doctor, do you know anything about it? My employer's wife is using it at the moment. She says there is no side effects, she just needs ...

April 25, 2007 / 2:59 PM EDT / CBS News (CBS) As I noted last February, a 2004 "60 Minutes" story about an African plant has been surprisingly popular on CBSNews.com.

At the beginning of December 2010, newspapers in South Africa announced a new development in the Hoodia slimming pill saga. According to Tamar Kahn writing in Business Day, Phytopharm, the UK company ...

Hoodia gordonii, or bitter ghaap, is one of many South African indigenous plants that has been used traditionally and is now the basis of a growing commercial industry. Bitter ghaap is a leafless ...

Have you heard about Hoodia? It's been discussed on news programs such as "60 Minutes," chatted about on talk shows and pitched as an herbal cure-all in advertisements. Hoodia, as in Hoodia gordon… ...

Consuming extracts of the succulent plant Hoodia gordonii is often punted as a safe way to lose weight, but a new study suggests it may not just shed fat but muscle tissue too. Muscle loss in ...

In the never-ending quest to find an appetite suppressant and weight-loss drug, never so heightened as during the holiday season, hoodia is all the rage. Google it, and you'll get 10 million links ...

An African plant with a funny name has been gaining popularity in recent months for its ability to suppress hunger and aid in weight loss.

BEGINNING IN the 1960s, the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) screened more than 1,000 native… ...