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Plants That Changed The World

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« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2008, 12:17:33 pm »









                                              WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?







In the early part of the century, plants were a vital source of raw material for medicines.

Later, techniques were developed to produce synthetic replacements for many of the medicines that had been derived from the forest.

But recently, problems with drug resistant microorganisms, side effects of modern drugs, and emerging diseases where no medicines are available, have encouraged an interest in plants once again as a significant source of new medicines. Modern-day researchers are coming to appreciate fully the vast medicinal knowledge of the indigenous people.

Companies from developed countries are now researching plants, some of which are known to have
been used for medicinal purposes and others which offer potential.

One South San Francisco company in particular, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc., emphasizes a respect-
ful collaboration with native and indigenous peoples as their primary method of drug discovery.

With further research and exploration, doubtless many other medicines await discovery in the Americas.



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