De Plantis Toxicariis e mundo novo tropicale Commentationes – XXXVIII: Ethnopharmacological and alkaloidal notes on plants of the northwest Amazon De Plantis Toxicariis e mundo novo tropicale Commentationes – XXXVIII: Ethnopharmacological and alkaloidal notes on plants of the northwest Amazon
1986
Schultes Richard Evans | Raffauf Robert F.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">Research on the biodynamic plants of the northwest Amazon, especially that part lying within the borders of Colombia, has continued to add to the large number of plants with biological activity-plants deserving of scientific </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">study for the benefit of mankind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">This series has continued to note the uses of plants as medicines, poisons </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">or narcotics that the Indians of the northwest Amazon have, through millennia </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">of trial and error, discovered to possess some activity on the human or animal </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">body. It is on these plants-rather perhaps than on a random sampling of the </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">80.000 species in the Amazon Valley-that modern phytochemists and pharmacologists </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">should focus their attention.</span></p><br> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">Research on the biodynamic plants of the northwest Amazon, especially that part lying within the borders of Colombia, has continued to add to the large number of plants with biological activity-plants deserving of scientific </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">study for the benefit of mankind.</span></p>
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