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Forest Pharmacy:
Medicinal Plants in American Forests
by Steven Foster
Native Americans
used plants to treat all kinds of ailments, but are these folk
remedies still valid? Hasn't modern medicine gone beyond primitive
potions made from forest-dwelling plants? The answer in Forest
Pharmacy is an emphatic No! In fact, a quarter of U.S. prescription
drugs are based on plants, and taxol, derived from the pacific
yew tree, is one of the twentieth century's most important new
anticancer drugs.
In Forest
Pharmacy, Steven Foster tells us that from early Native American
healers to modern American scientists, from wild-harvested plants
in the Appalachian Mountains to cultivated yew trees in the Pacific
Northwest, Americans have long used and continue to use forest
plants as powerful sources of medicine.
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1995 by the
Forest History Society.
58 pp.; 17 photos; 4 tables.
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