Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets
Categories: Science & Math
Ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin explores how nature has supplied medicines and may hold many more, in chapters on poisons, fungi, insects, leeches, snakes, marine life, plant use by primates, shamans and diabetes. He discusses compounds from frog skin, anticoagulants in leech saliva and leads from snake venom, and contends that the knowledge of traditional healers and the diversity of rainforests must be protected before both disappear.
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- Tim Ferriss: “I was reading this book recently called Medicine Quest by an ethnobotanist named Mark Plotkin. And I'm hoping to excerpt some of it on the blog because there are a few chapters that are really just incredible.”